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Jan 30, 2021 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The next police chief of Columbus must come from outside the agency and through a national search, community activists critical of policing in Ohio’s largest city insisted Friday. Former Chief Thomas Quinlan, demoted Thursday by Mayor Andrew Ginther, was a 30-year member of the agency and was unlikely to make the big changes needed because of his career there, the activists said. “We need someone who can come with a fresh lens that didn’t grow up in the culture of Columbus Division of Police or the culture of policing within the state of Ohio,” sa...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The next police chief of Columbus must come from outside the agency and through a national search, community activists critical of policing in Ohio's largest city insisted Friday. Former Chief Thomas Quinlan, demoted Thursday by Mayor Andrew Ginther, was a 30-year member of the agency and was unlikely to make the big changes needed because of his career there, the activists said. “We need someone who can come with a fresh lens that didn’t grow up in the culture of Columbus Division of Police or the culture of policing within the state of Ohio,” said Chenelle Jone...

A Columbus police officer who had been fired, reinstated and then suspended with pay has been fully reinstated to the division.  Randall Mayhew, 49, was fired in August 2018 following an internal investigation into his actions, particularly allegations that he solicited prostitutes on at least three occasions in 2015 while on duty as a patrol officer on the city's West Side.  In December 2017, Mayhew had entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of dereliction of duty. He had been charged with engaging in prostitution and solicitation, but those charges were dismissed.  Mayhew had been...

Columbus police officer once fired for dereliction of duty is reinstated after additional investigation After Officer Randall Mayhew was reinstated in November 2019, he was put on paid administrative leave again due to another investigation. Author: Lacey Crisp Updated: 5:44 PM EST January 26, 2021 COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus Division of Police officer who was fired, given his job back through arbitration, then placed on paid administrative leave due to another investigation, has now been reinstated. Randall Mayhew was accused of having sex with three differe...

Ohio Democrats handed power to police unions, and now cities live with the consequences Bill Bush, The Columbus Dispatch © Columbus Dispatch file icons Columbus Police Badge Shield As Columbus' Democrat-controlled government remains locked in a pitched battle over whether the city's police union can influence the way officer-involved shootings and allegations of misconduct are investigated and discipline is carried out, it was their own party that gave the union its current power. And since the mid-1980s, when Ohio instituted a sea change in public sector collective-bargai...