Campbell restores lieutenant position;promotes 4

CAMPBELL

It’s been more than 20 years since the Campbell Police Department had a lieutenant — the city chose in 1983 to phase out that rank, and the last lieutenant retired in 1993.

Campbell Police Chief Drew Rauzan said lieutenants usually are the chief’s “right-hand man” in departments.

This summer, Campbell decided to bring back that rank, and promoted one of its sergeants to the new lieutenant position at noon Thursday. The city also promoted three patrol officers to sergeant to fill recent vacancies.

Campbell promoted John Rusnak from sergeant to lieutenant, and patrolmen Joseph Pavlansky, Kevin Sferra and Charles Butch to sergeant. Judith Clement, city administrator, said the new positions will be effective Sunday.

Read more about why the city decided to restore the post in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.