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Anaheim appoints new police chief to the tune of $390K a year
Anaheim has a new police chief, Manuel Cid.
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Anaheim city leaders on Tuesday unanimously approved the appointment of Manuel Cid as the new police chief.
Anaheim’s police department is the largest in Orange County with more than 400 sworn officers, and as its chief, Cid will make around $390,000 annually. By comparison, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell, who oversees around 9,000 sworn officers, makes $450,000 a year.
“ The recommendation contract presented here strikes an appropriate balance, acknowledging that public safety is the council and the community's highest priority and that the proposed agreement for the chief is consistent with chief salary survey findings,” said City Manager Jim Vanderpool, who selected Cid from a field of candidates.
Cid comes to Anaheim from the Glendale Police Department, where he has served as chief since January 2023. He previously was the police chief for Culver City.
During his tenure as chief in Glendale, the city came under fire for a contract with U.S. Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement that allowed the agency to use its jails. The Glendale Police Department said at the time it did not collaborate with federal immigration authorities, and at Tuesday’s meeting, Cid said Anaheim would take the same approach.
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“ Our job as a local police department is, again, to uphold public safety, work with our community and really focus on that, both in philosophy, practice and in accordance with state law,” Cid said at the meeting Tuesday. “It is not our job to get involved and to participate and assist the federal — any federal entity in conducting immigration enforcement.”
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Earlier in the evening, people spoke out against the fatal police shooting of a 19-year-old man Saturday night and called on city leaders to hold the officer accountable.
A spokesperson for the O.C. District Attorney’s Office told LAist the shooting is being investigated.
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