RFP Staff
♦ At yesterday’s City Council meeting, Salisbury City Manager W. Lane Bailey named Capt. Brian Stallings interim Salisbury Police Chief effective January 1st, 2016 following the retirement of Police Chief Rory Collins.
Stallings, a native of Richfield, N.C., began his law enforcement career with the Salisbury Police Department in 1996 as a patrol officer. Over his tenure he served as a victim’s advocate, an investigator, a police sergeant overseeing general investigations and as a lieutenant directing the criminal investigations division.
Promoted to Captain in 2014, he currently manages the department’s traffic unit, patrol division, grant research and issuance of ABC, parade, and street closure permits.
Captain Stallings will serve as interim police chief until a permanent replacement is named sometime in the late spring or early summer of 2016.
Stallings, a graduate of Pfeiffer University where he majored in both criminal justice and sociology, also obtained an MBA from the same institution. He holds an Advanced Law Enforcement Certification from the North Carolina Justice Training and Standards Commission and was awarded the Salisbury Police Department’s “Veteran Officer of the Year”.
Stallings will be paid the equivalent of $80,000 per year during his interim stint.
Collins will stay on in an “advisory” capacity until the end of the fiscal year. Collins will continue to draw his regular salary during this period or until the North Carolina Retirement System approves his retirement.
The search for Collins permanent replacement is now underway.
Stallings is viewed by several former Salisbury Police officers as a reasonable choice to take interim command. He has support from the rank and file officers. Of the current command staff it’s said he’s the only one patrol has trust in.
Former officers believe Collin’s “advisory” role squares with the fact that he can’t retire before June (end of the fiscal year). Collins can take an early, greatly diminished retirement, but not before 50 so this is a gift/buyoff to Collins. It is curious as to why the city would pay him a full salary to be in an advisory position. Under regular circumstances if Collins was making full salary he would be expected to do a full time job.
Brian Stallings Interim-Chief-of-Police:
