University team won't do SBPD review anytime soon

A much-touted plan to bring in a local criminologist and former police chief to study SBPD has been shelved, at least for the next few months.

"Chief (Michael) Bildt's successor, together with the interested parties, are expected to reevaluate the
need, purpose and intent of this study once the new Police Administration is in place next Spring," interim City Manager Mark Weinberg wrote in an email.

City officials had discussed the possibility of having Cal State San Bernardino criminologist Larry Gaines and former Fontana and Rialto police chief Frank Scialdone provide a third-party look at SBPD in the wake of a very public rupture between the police union and Billdt.

Now, it seems as if the plan for all parties is to simply wait for the chief to retire in March and see what happens after the city has a new top cop.