The head of the New Knoxville Police Department has an extensive crime prevention fund

The head of the police in Knoxville, Paul Noel, added a deputy chief focused on preventing crime and said he would continue to work to build the ranks of the Department of Color Officers, so that leaders in the future will better reflect the community.

Joe Mchale He will replace Deputy Chief Tony Willis, who will retire on June 1 after 29 years with the Knoxville Police Department.

Mchale was Kansas City, Missouri, the main police department and then served for three years the head of police in Marion, Iowa.

While working in Kansas City for 25 years, MCHALE focused on efforts to reduce violence and discouragement, which contributed to a great reduction in homucids in 2014, according to the statement.

After his time in police departments, Mchale worked as a senior research associate on strategies to reduce violence for Institute for Intergovernmental Researcha non -profit that advises police departments.

Why did the chief Paul Noel hired Deputy Chief Joe Mchale?

Mchale’s understanding of the tactic to reduce violence convinced Noel to hire him.

MCHALE will lead the KPD investigation office, which includes:

• Special crimes such as sexual aggression and crimes against children

He will also be responsible for the modernization of KPD crime analyzes, which Noel said was an objective of the department over the last two years.

Crime detection will be a large part of Mchale’s job. Police are working to arrest the most violent criminals or to connect those at risk of committing crimes with the Knoxville Community Safety and Employment to “get the streets and help return their lives,” Noel told Knox News.

Mchale will work with Knoxville Crime Weapon Information Center To study the carcasses and potentially connect people to the crime they committed. Noel hopes that Knoxville will become the regional center in the processing of the ballistics.

“It was indeed an opportunity from my career to bring someone who was exceptional in all the things we needed to improve,” Noel said.

Mchale, a white man, has the vast experience that Noel has sought. Noel told Knox News that the diversification of force in the future remains dedicated.

“First of all, I hired to increase the diversity of the Knoxville Police Department,” he said.

He first restored the department to improve his basic culture and now has the room to sink deeper to diversify him up and down.

“When we first came, we changed our employment process to level the playing field, because the playing field was not at the level and we took a lot of impulses in this regard,” Noel said.

Now, the number of recruits from various environments has increased for the Knoxville Police Academy, Noel said.

When he hired the deputy chief, Noel initially intended to hire internally, but because Mchale’s background fits the KPD needs, he was the right person for this job.

Noel noted that one of the eight officers promoted on February 27 was a color person and hopes that this is just the beginning, especially that the captain’s positions and below must be recruited internally.

“My challenge is that this is not a problem that will be solved overnight. We have a department that has very little diversity … and this is something we will solve, collecting people to rise through ranks and that it will be an extra 10 years solution,” Noel said.

This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Deputy Chief of Police in Knoxville, Joe Mchale, has crime prevention funds