SACRAMENTO POLICE DEPARTMENT  News Release
		Release #5-26 Tuesday,  May 23, 2000 For Immediate Release
						Contact: Michele Quattrin Telephone: 916-264-5124 Internet: www.sacpd.org

The Sacramento Police Department will shortly have a vacancy in the rank of Deputy Chief of Police.  We have been fortunate to have had the distinguished service of Deputy Chief Matt Powers.  Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for him, he has accepted a position with the Raley's Corporation.  Deputy Chief Powers will assume the position of Vice-President for Organizational Effectiveness and Business Practices.

Deputy Chief Powers attributes his success in landing the job with the Raley's Corporation to his experiences as part of Chief Venegas' and the city's management team.  In his retirement letter to Chief Venegas, Deputy Chief Powers states, "A big part of my value to Raley's is due to the contributions you've allowed and encouraged me to make for the Sacramento community.  The well-deserved national reputation we enjoy for community policing is due in large measure to the empowerment you extended to your management team.  I am proud to have been a member of that team.  I will long remember and appreciate the many opportunities you afforded me."

To fill the vacancy being created by Deputy Chief Powers' departure, the City Manager, Mr. Robert Thomas, believes that there exists plenty of talent among the Captains of the Sacramento Police Department.  A process has been established that will include interviews by community and expert panels.  These panels will make recommendations to the Chief of Police, Arturo Venegas, Jr. and Mr. Thomas, who by City Charter is the appointing authority.

We all thank Deputy Chief Powers for over 23 years of dedicated service to the citizens of Sacramento and wish him well in his new career with a great community minded corporation.