ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday named the previous police chief of two suburban Atlanta counties as the following director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Michael “Mike” Register would changed Vic Reynolds, whom Kemp in June named as a superior court docket decide in Cobb County.
Register was police chief in Clayton County after which in Cobb County, focusing in Cobb on bettering relations between county police and a quickly diversifying group. Register in 2019 was promoted to public security director in Cobb County, overseeing police, hearth and emergency administration. Register stepped down from the general public security director’s place after solely 4 months in 2019, saying he wanted to maneuver out of state for private causes.
Register returned to Georgia, turning into assistant chief of the Cobb County Sheriff’s Workplace, which oversees the jail, guards courts and serves warrants within the county of greater than 750,000 folks.
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Register, if authorised by the state public security board, would take the reins on the 950-employee GBI at a time when Reynolds has centered on investigating gangs and lawmakers have tasked the company with investigating election crimes. Many native businesses depend on GBI to assist them examine murders and different severe crimes, and the company investigates virtually all shootings by cops. GBI additionally performs autopsies and runs the state’s crime lab.
Till Reynolds is sworn is as a decide, Kemp stated GBI Assistant Director John Melvin would be the company’s interim chief.
Register beforehand additionally served as an government for a navy contractor. He spent 23 years within the U.S. Army as a particular forces engineer and particular forces medic, together with two fight excursions in Afghanistan.
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