DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is transferring to maintain two of the town’s prime public security leaders of their roles below his administration.
Ron Thomas, chief of the Denver Police Division, will keep within the function if Johnston’s nomination will get council approval, the mayor’s workplace introduced Tuesday. Armando Saldate III, govt director of the Division of Security, additionally was nominated to maintain his function.
“Public security is one in every of my prime priorities as mayor,” Johnston mentioned partially in an announcement. “We laid out a giant imaginative and prescient for what’s doable in Denver, and we’re delighted that Armando and Chief Thomas share this imaginative and prescient. Collectively, these confirmed leaders will help ship a safer metropolis for Denverites.”
Saldate has led the town’s security division since his council affirmation in February 2022.
In accordance with the mayor’s workplace, Saldate began his profession in 1993 in Phoenix and took on a number of assignments earlier than he retired from the division in 2014. He relocated to Colorado, working within the Denver Sheriff Division and, later, the Division of Security.
Thomas was appointed police chief in October 2022 after spending his profession with the division.
The mayor’s workplace mentioned he graduated from Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty and joined the Denver Police Division in 1989, and he was patrol division chief from 2018 till his promotion to chief.
