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Moose Seeks Minneapolis Police Post
By Steve Vogel Former Montgomery County police chief Charles A. Moose, who resigned this
summer during an ethics dispute over his authorship of a book about the
Washington area sniper attacks, has applied for the top police job in
Minneapolis, according to an official familiar with that city's search for a new
chief. The official, who requested anonymity because the search process is
confidential, confirmed a report in yesterday's Minneapolis Star Tribune that
Moose is among 26 applicants seeking to replace the current chief, Robert Olson,
whose contract expires in January. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak has said he does
not plan to retain Olson. "I think he would be a great hire for them," Montgomery County Executive
Douglas M. Duncan said of Moose, whom Duncan hired in 1999. After the county
Ethics Commission in March declined to give Moose permission to profit from a
book about his central role in the sniper case, Moose resigned in June, a
decision that Duncan said saddened him. "He did a great job for us as chief," said Duncan, who unsuccessfully lobbied
for Moose to obtain a waiver of ethics rules that forbid county employees from
using the prestige of public office for personal gain. Duncan said yesterday
that he had not been contacted by anyone in Minneapolis about Moose. "I always
expected he would be police chief again somewhere within a year," he said. Moose gained national notoriety as the principal public spokesman for the law
enforcement task force investigating the October 2002 sniper attacks, in which
13 people were shot, 10 of them fatally. In a deal with the E.P. Dutton
publishing house, which gave him a $170,000 advance and $4 for every book sold,
Moose and co-author Charles Fleming wrote "Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt
for the Serial Sniper," which went on sale in September. The Minneapolis job would put Moose, 50, in charge of a department with fewer
officers than he oversaw in Montgomery, the second-most populous jurisdiction in
the Washington region. The county has 1,100 officers compared with Minneapolis's
810. Moose, who was chief in Portland, Ore., for six years before moving to
Montgomery, could not be located for comment yesterday. Messages left on his
wife Sandy's cell phone were not returned. The Associated Press quoted Sandy
Moose yesterday as saying that her family had no comment on the matter and that
her husband was unavailable. A spokesman for Olson, the current Minneapolis chief, also did not return
phone messages yesterday. The Star Tribune quoted Olson as saying that he and
Moose are good friends and that he considers Moose a highly competent law
enforcement executive.
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