Nashville's Community Oversight Board recommends new hiring practices for MNPD Nashville's Community Oversight Board has several new recommendations on how the Metro Nashville Police Department should hire new officers. The NAACP asked the board to look into hiring practices. and last updated 2021-05-13 12:06:56-04 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Nashville's Community Oversight Board has several new recommendations on how the Metro Nashville Police Department should hire new officers. The NAACP asked the board to look into hiring practices. The board gave 11 recommendations to the department, which included things like working to increase diversity in their background investigators and requiring a panel to review any incident where an applicant was involved in any type of criminal investigation.