Tim Bowers is Warren’s police chief — officially

WARREN — It took the three members of the Warren Civil Service Commission about a minute to review two test scores and declare Tim Bowers, acting police chief since April, the city’s new police chief.

“Congratulations to the new chief of police,” Atty. James Fredericka, civil service commission chairman, said to Bowers, shaking his hand Wednesday morning in the Data Processing building behind City Hall.

Bowers, 54, has been a Warren police officer for 31 years and has held the rank of captain for nearly nine years.

Bowers, a 1974 graduate of James A. Garfield High School in Garrettsville, scored higher than the other candidate who took the 150-question multiple-choice test Aug. 20: Lt. Cathy Spencer.

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