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The deputy chief of Knoxville Police, Joe Mchahale

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Knoxville's chief of police, Paul Noel, has added a deputy boss who focuses on the contraception of crime, and said that he would continue to work on building the ranks of the colors of the department, so that the leaders will better reflect the community in the future.

Joe Mchashale will replace the deputy chief Tony Willis, who will retire on June 1 after 29 years with the Knoxville police.

Mchashale is a former police major in Kansasas, Missouri, and then served police chief in Marion, Iowa for three years.

During his time in Kansas City, Mchashe focused on reducing violence and deterrent efforts, which, according to the press release, contributed to a great reduction in murders in 2014.

After his time at police authorities, Mchashe worked as a senior research association, which focused on strategies for reducing violence for the Institute for Interprecial Research, a non -profit organization that advises police authorities.

Why did Chief Paul Noel hire deputy boss Joe Mchahale?

Mchal's understanding of the reduction of violence persuaded Noel to stop it.

Mchashale will lead the KPD investigation office, including:

  • Violent crime
  • Property crime
  • Special crimes such as sexual assault and crimes against children
  • Gang examinations
  • Criminal analysis

He will also be responsible for the modernization of the KPD crime analysis, which according to Noel has been a goal of the department for two years.

Crime scare will be a large part of Mchales job. The police are working on arresting the most violent criminals or combining the risk of committing crime with the Department of Security and Empowerment in Knoxville in order to “bring them off the street and turn their lives around,” Noel told Knox News.

Mchashale will work with the Knoxville Crime Gun Intelligence Center to study sleeves and possibly combine people with the crime they have committed. Noel hopes that Knoxville will be the regional center in ballistics processing.

“It was really a unique opportunity to bring someone who was extraordinary in all the things we had to improve,” said Noel.

Mchashale, a white man, has the extensive experience that Noel was looking for. Noel told Knox News that he was still diversifying strength into the future.

“First of all, I am obliged to increase the variety of Knoxville's diversity,” he said.

He has revised the department for the first time to improve its underlying culture, and now has the space to go deeper into the diversification of the ranks.

“When I arrived for the first time, we changed our setting process to improve the competitive area because the competitive area was not exactly, and I have a lot of setback on it,” said Noel.

Now the number of recruits with different backgrounds for the Knoxville Police Academy has increased, said Noel.

When stopping the deputy boss, Noel originally intended to rent internally, but because Mchale's background met the needs of KPD, he was the right person for the job.

Noel found that one of the eight promoted officers was a colored person on February 27, and he hopes that this is only the beginning, especially because the positions of the captain and below have to be recruited internally.

“My challenge is that this is not a problem that is fixed overnight. We have a department that historically has very little diversity … And this is something we will fix by tempting people to raise themselves through the ranks and that this will be a 10-year solution,” said Noel.