UCI Appoints Campus Police Chief

IRVINE — After a five-month search, a campus police lieutenant from UCLA has been appointed chief of campus police at UC Irvine, university officials announced Thursday.

Kathleen Stanley will take over the post Oct. 1, filling a spot vacated in April by former chief Michael P. Michell, who was assigned to the newly created post of emergency preparedness director for the university.

Stanley will have an annual salary of $75,000, university spokeswoman Karen Newell Young said.

Stanley is a 17-year veteran at the UCLA police. She moved from patrol officer to patrol sergeant and then lieutenant in charge of communications and records, UCLA assistant chief Alan Cueba said.

While university officials searched for a new police chief, Assistant Police Chief Dennis L. Powers served as acting chief.

At the time of Michell’s reassignment, the university police department was in turmoil over officers’ complaints of favoritism, lack of professionalism and discrimination on the part of Michell and top police management.

Morale hit a low last spring during a review of police operations by a management consulting firm, which advised a change at the top because Michell had lost his credibility, officers said at the time.