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By THOMAS GRILLO
LYNN — The city has a new police chief, The Item has learned.
Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy confirmed that Deputy Chief Michael Mageary will be get the post vacated by Kevin Coppinger.
The mayor said Mageary was the top scorer in an Assessment Center review of four candidates for the $100,000 a year assignment. The other officers seeking the job included Acting Chief Leonard Desmarais and Capts. Mark O’Toole and Michael Vail.
MMA Consulting Group Inc., a Plymouth-based company, provides an Assessment Center comprised of an expert panel that interviews the candidates, asks their responses to real-life situations, grades them and recommends the top candidate to the mayor.
“Today, I received the MMA Consulting Group’s report on the police chief assessment center results,” she said. “I am pleased to announce that Deputy Chief Michael A. Mageary…will be assuming the duties of chief shortly.”
Mageary could not immediately be reached for comment.
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