Article: Strong marks, room to improve Strong marks, room to improve.(Local)

AN INDEPENDENT assessment of Chesapeake's Police Department, perhaps the first in the agency's history, should encourage residents, beat cops and the command staff. New Chief Kelvin Wright must tackle some problem areas, but the recommended changes are minor. The department earned kudos for doing lots of things well.

That's excellent news. Though City Manager William Harrell had requested the review shortly after the shooting death of Detective Jarrod Shivers during a January drug raid, the $219,000 examination didn't focus on that case.

Instead, the president of Harrisonburg-based Carroll Buracker & Associates Inc. laid out a series of critiques, ...

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