Former Chicago Police Department Supt. Garry McCarthy has been hired as the interim police chief of Willow Springs.
Willow Springs Mayor Melissa Neddermeyer said in a statement Wednesday that “we are confident in (McCarthy’s) leadership to oversee our police operations because he is an experienced and well-trained professional.”
A news conference announcing the appointment is set for Thursday morning in the southwest suburb. McCarthy will be sworn in at a village board meeting later in April.
The former chief of police of Willow Springs, James Ritz, resigned, the village said in a statement.
McCarthy rose through the ranks of the NYPD and took the job of superintendent of CPD in 2011. He resigned in 2015 at the request of then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel after fallout from the release of a tape showing police fatally shooting Laquan McDonald.
