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Chief Robert Russell has named Robert Beck deputy chief in charge ofpatrol and criminal investigation divisions.Beck, a 45-year-old major, had been acting deputy chief since February when Russell was promoted from deputy chief to chief. Beck will have the rank of lieutenant colonel."I'm very lucky. It's one thing to work hard enough to earn a promotion, but it's another to have the position you are qualified for open up for you."Like magic, every time I've been qualified, one of these vacancies has just opened up for me," Beck said.

Kim Washington, Baltimore's chief lobbyist, will leave her post early in the coming General Assembly session, city officials announced Monday. Washington, a lifelong friend of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, will take a post in the city's housing department, where she had worked previously. Del. Curt Anderson, head of the city's House delegation in Annapolis, said Washington informed him over the weekend that she would be leaving in early February. Washington had worked closely with legislators over the past month to craft the city's priorities in the session that begins Wednesday, he said.

County Executive Robert R. Neall has appointed Gorham L. Black, a former garrison commander at Fort Meade, as his deputy chief administration officer.The 49-year-old Laurel resident started his $67,591-a-year job on Friday."Gorham Black's extensive managerial experience will be an important asset to Anne Arundel County," Mr. Neall said in a statement.Mr. Black's job will be to implement management policies, serve as a liaison between the county and independent boards, such as the community college and the library system, and perform special assignments.

Yolanda Jiggetts, one of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's three deputies, has announced her resignation, citing health concerns, City Hall officials said. Mayoral spokesman Ryan O'Doherty said Monday that Jiggetts — the deputy chief for public safety, operations and CitiStat — will be on medical leave until Sept. 3, which will be the official date of her resignation. He declined to describe her health problems and asked that her privacy be respected. Jiggetts' deputy, Barbara Zektick, is taking over her duties, O'Doherty said.

Retired Baltimore County Deputy Fire Chief Charles O. Weinreich, who remained active in firemen's activities after his retirement, died Sunday of cancer at his home on Detroit Avenue in St. Helena.Services for Chief Weinreich, who was 80, were to be conducted at 11 a.m. today at the Duda-Ruck Funeral Home, 7922 Wise Ave., Dundalk.Known to many in the department as Otts, he retired in 1980 after 11 years of service as a deputy chief in Fire Suppression, the division of the department that fights fires.

Andrew Charles Tartaglino, retired deputy chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, died Friday at his home in Charlesbrooke after a 10-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 71.In three decades of sleuthing, he helped catch hit men and drug traffickers, as well as corrupt police officers and agents.He led a two-year investigation into corruption in the New York City Police Department in the late 1960s that resulted in the arrests of more than 40 officers. The celebrated case was the basis for the book and movie, "Prince of the City."

The Annapolis City Council will meet in closed session tonight to appoint a new deputy police chief.Col. Joseph S. Johnson, 48, a 23-year veteran of the Baltimore City Police Department, is Police ChiefHarold Robbins' choice for the job. Robbins and Mayor Alfred A. Hopkins announced the decision two weeks ago, fulfilling a promise Hopkins made a year ago to hire a black deputy chief.Johnson, who commands Baltimore's 1,800-member patrol division, would start his new job July 1. He would earn $61,500 a year, about $2,000 more than retiring Capt.

A 23-year veteran of the Baltimore City Police Department has been chosen the new assistant chief in Annapolis, fulfilling a promise madeby the mayor a year ago to hire a black deputy.Col. Joseph S. Johnson, commander of the Baltimore's patrol division, will start his new job July 1, pending City Council approval of the 1992 budget. The council will vote on the position April 4."I have to think about my career at this time," said Johnson, a lifelong Anne Arundel resident. "I have to think about coming back home to my family."

The Baltimore County firefighters union assailed yesterday the promotion of two top-level firefighters with ties to County Executive C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger, fraying the union's strained relationship with the executive.The union -- which in recent years has picketed Ruppersberger over his salary offers and fought his efforts to restructure the department -- said qualified candidates were unfairly shut out of consideration for the $80,000 deputy chief jobs because the administration made its choices months before the official selection process began.

The Annapolis City Council voted unanimously last night to appoint Baltimore police Col. Joseph S. Johnson the new deputy chief of police.Johnson, 48, said he was elated by the vote. He said he got a $1,000 raise, to $62,500 a year, and he would retire from the BaltimorePolice Department on July 15 and start work in Annapolis on July 23.The new deputy chief said he wanted to work with Police Chief Harold Robbins "to attack the perception of racial problems in the department and to improve professionalism."

The union that represents Anne Arundel County's upper police ranks plans to run a radio ad beginning Thursday in support of the department's second-in-command, who has called for a federal probe of the department and said the force is "dysfunctional. " The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, which represents Anne Arundel's police lieutenants and sergeants, paid for the ad that trumpets Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis as having taken a "brave stand" by testifying in front of the County Council about alleged improprieties by his superiors.

The Anne Arundel County Police Department's second in command has agreed to appear before the County Council on Monday night and answer questions as part of an inquiry into pending criminal charges against County Executive John R. Leopold. Deputy Police Chief Lt. Col. Emerson C. Davis accepted an invitation from Councilman Jamie Benoit, writing to the council in an email Wednesday afternoon. "If it is still your desire for me to appear before the County Council to answer questions regarding the police department ... I will accept your invitation," Davis wrote.

A high-ranking city school official, whose resume includes degrees from institutions that require little or no classroom work and which academic watchdog groups have referred to as "diploma mills," resigned abruptly Thursday after questions about his credentials were raised by The Baltimore Sun. Kevin Seawright, deputy chief operating officer with an annual salary of $135,200, said he resigned his post to enter the private sector. Schools CEO Andrés Alonso revealed the resignation in an email to school system staff Thursday, saying that Seawright "worked tirelessly during my administration to improve our responsiveness to schools.

Solomon S. "Sol" Goldberg, a retired lawyer who had been deputy chief judge advocate of the Army's Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, died Jan. 31 of undetermined causes at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. He was 89. Mr. Goldberg, the son of a grocer and a homemaker, was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a graduate of city public schools. He had completed his pre-law training and his first year of law school at St. John's University in New York City when he was drafted into the Army in 1942.

I find it hard to fathom that just one month ago, the City Council and mayor just couldn't find the funds to support our city firefighters and police officers, and now suddenly funds have magically appeared to provide raises for deputy chiefs of the fire department ("City fire chief seeks raise for top officers," July 24). What a slap in the face to the men and women who risk their lives daily to protect this city. The justification from the fire chief is these raises are needed to achieve salary equity and attract candidates to fill the positions.

Arundel police seek attacker of woman in Downs Park 2 Anne Arundel County police are looking for a teenager who they said grabbed a 40-year-old woman around the neck as she walked in Downs Park in Pasadena over the Labor Day weekend. The woman suffered minor injuries, according to police, who said she was on a wooded trail in the park area Saturday about 3:45 p.m. when she came across a teenage boy "acting in a strange manner," appearing to intentionally fall off his bike several times.

All eight deputy chiefs in the Baltimore Fire Department have been given layoff notices as part of a "major organizational change" that may bring more internal shake-ups later, a city fire official said yesterday.The eight deputies, who are paid about $60,000 annually, were informed on Friday that they will be laid off effective June 30, said Capt. Hector L. Torres, a spokesman for the department.Four new assistant chief positions will be created in the department and will pay about $65,000, Captain Torres said.

A Baltimore fire commander, who was dismissed after being deemed "negligent" and "incompetent" in his role at a live-burn training exercise in which a 29-year-old recruit died last year, will be reinstated and likely promoted after authorities determined that his termination was not proper. The city's civil service commissioner has upheld a hearing examiner's decision to reinstate Lt. Barry P. Broyles, the instructor in charge of an ill-prepared rescue team that responded to the fatal exercise Feb. 9, 2007, in which Racheal M. Wilson was killed.