Vallejo taps San Jose veteran cop for deputy police chief role
Michael Kihmm will be sworn in as Vallejo's new deputy police chief on November 30.
(Still frame courtesy San Jose Police Department, Graphic by Solano News Update)
The Vallejo Police Department has recruited a veteran officer from San Jose to serve as its next deputy police chief.
In an announcement emailed to reporter Friday afternoon, the agency said it had picked Michael Kihmm for the position. Kihmm will be sworn in later this month.
Kihmm joins the Vallejo Police Department from San Jose where he most recently served as a captain. He began his law enforcement career in 1991 with the Milpitas Police Department.
“I am excited and grateful that [incoming] Deputy Chief Kihmm will be joining our department,” Shawny Williams, Vallejo’s chief of police, said in a statement.
Kihmm fills a position left vacant by Vallejo’s former deputy police chief Joseph Allio, who resigned in early October so he could care for his terminally-ill child.
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