MASON CITY – A police officer from Ames has been chosen from a pool of candidates to be Mason City’s next Chief of Police, and the city council will vote on the matter next week.
Jeff Brinkley, currently a Lieutenant with the Ames Police Department was selected from a list of 9 candidates that were approved by the Mason City Civil Service Commission.
The candidates, according to city documents, were interviewed for 45 each with city administrator Brent Trout and current department directors for 20 minutes. They all also met with the mayor and city council in an open house plus an hour-long open house with the public. Additionally, the city had hired Cayler Consulting to conduct an assessment panel to gauge the readiness of each candidate to be the next police chief of Mason City. The panel consisted of a retired chief of police and two currently employed police chiefs.
All of these factors led to the selection of Mr. Brinkley to be the chosen candidate. He has a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies from Iowa State University and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Iowa State. He has extensive training, city documents claim, along with a 19 year career in law enforcement, mostly in Ames.
If hired, his starting salary would be slightly less ($93,017.60) than Chief Lashbrook’s, who announced his retirement earlier this year. He has already been conditionally offered the job by Mr. Trout.
14 thoughts on “Mason City police chief chosen: Council will vote on Ames police officer Jeff Brinkley”
If you see this drunken fool driving just bump into him and call the police. If they are a decent cop they will give him a test and bingo bango off to the x-bar motel.
Anonymous- we need a guy that wiil come into our once proud city and strap on his six shooters and run the imports out of town as we all have said on numerous postings. If we want to take back control of town we need someone to keep putting these shit bags in jail, after a while they will get tired of it and find another town to sell their shit, beat their women and guys that f**k them over. We’ve all asked for help and I feel we need new blood on the force. Hell I might just have to come out of hiding and help out.
@Bookie-I would support that all the way. I used to belong to a sheriff’s posse in another state and still remember the training.
Agreed!!! McKelvey wouldn’t have the backbone to clean this town up. I hope this chief will clean up the police force, make them do their jobs, and help with the drug problem here. And also not to ring a blind eye to our mayor who drives around town after drinking.
My opinion for what it is worth, is, new thoughts and new ideas are always good. My problem is our crooked mayor will do his best to pollute the new guy. I hope he has brass balls.
The “new guy” should realize, he doesn’t work for Eric. Eric’s day in the sun is over. He is a has-been and a barely-ever-was. Perched in a tree by greedy mutts who realize he is a toxic mess. The “new guy” should work with the city admin and the city council. They are his bosses. The quicker the “new guy” realizes Eric will soon be working at the Target Snack Bar as Phase 2 of his so-called career, the better his new life in MC will be.
@Matt-I am not sure the city council is any better. They were gutless enough to let him rule them for six years when he really had no authority to do it. I pretty much have lost respect for all of them. The one I had hopes for was Kuhn but he is to much a politician already.
@Matt-I will say this, Brent Trout is a very bright guy who is completely capable of running the city if they get rid of that intimidating a-wipe called a mayor.
I think its wrong to go outside the dept to find a leader. Sure hope we didn’t get another Jack Schliepper!!!
The internal captain is a mini Jack.
It was obvious the rank and file was not a supporter.
Shut up Peter. You don’t live in Mason City, so what does it matter to you.
I just hope hes on board with running the drug lords out of town.
Interesting. If he is smart he will turn down the job until Drunkmeyer is long gone.
Well,well,well, now Petey is posting as a woman. Go away, back to the basement for you.