By Christopher Placek | Daily Herald
Elk Grove Village officials have hired their new police chief away from Barrington.
David Dorn, who has spent a decade at the helm of the Barrington Police Department, will take over the same role in Elk Grove effective April 1, officials announced.
Dorn’s hiring to the $185,000-a-year position comes about a year after the departure of Chuck Walsh, who became director of safety and security in Lake Forest school districts 115 and 67.
Fire Chief Rich Mikel has been serving as director of police since then, in what was intended to be a coaching and mentoring role to the police department’s command staff — with the goal of potentially promoting one of the two deputy police chiefs to the top job.
But in the end, village officials decided to go with an external candidate from another Northwest suburb. The national search yielded more than 30 applicants, including one from as far as Texas, said Mayor Craig Johnson.
The mayor said Dorn received the unanimous endorsement of the village board and a hiring committee that included former Deputy Police Chief Larry Hammer and Fire and Police Commission Chairman Steve Scholten. Johnson said he also talked to Barrington Village President Karen Darch, who spoke highly of Dorn.
“I think we have a winner here,” Johnson said at the village board meeting Tuesday night.
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