APD Chief Michael Persley named to International Chiefs Board

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ALBANY — Albany Police Department Chief Michael Persley has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Persley has been appointed to a three-year term through the 2025 annual conference. His tenure on the board starts immediately.

The Board of Directors is IACP’s governing body and is responsible for working to advance the organization’s membership, the association, and the policing profession. Persley will begin serving at 2022-2023 Board of Directors meetings.

In 2016, Persley was named to then-Gov. Nathan Deal’s Law Enforcement Task Force, which was a state-sponsored effort to improve law enforcement.

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Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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