Longmont Leader: Outgoing Public Safety Chief Butler outlines qualities needed in next department leader

“This list of attributes takes into consideration what is believed would best serve our city, a community that is diverse and growing in complexity. They were designed in consideration of our history, our present and our hopeful destiny.”

In January of 2020, I announced I would be leaving the city of Longmont as our community’s public safety chief. In February of this year, I was asked to develop a list of personal and professional attributes for consideration in selecting our next Public Safety Department chief. In Longmont, the Public Safety Department includes police services, fire services, community health and resiliency, dispatch services and a support services division. They were written with the highest of hopes for the future.

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Written by: Mike Butler, Co-Founder, Project PACT

Mike Butler was the public safety chief in Longmont, Colorado for 26 years. He reinvented public safety within the context of partnerships and leveraged social capital. During his tenure, Longmont public safety instilled a philosophy that included the utilization of many alternative options to the criminal justice system. Those options embraced the inclusion of tens of thousands of Longmont citizens in response to the social and health issues in Longmont.

Mike is sought by communities throughout the country who want to learn how to rethink and reset their own public safety response to the human condition that resides in their communities.

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