By: WCTV Eyewitness News

December 20, 2019

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) — In wake of

, City Manager Reese Goad says the new TPD top cop will be selected from the pool of seven candidates the Community Partners Committee interviewed earlier in the selection process.

Originally, the pool had eight candidates, but TPD Major Lonnie Scott

to the department on Monday.

"We will take everything into consideration and there's a lot

of information to be had," Goad says. "These are very difficult jobs, and

so that's an informative piece. I think the reaction of the

committee, their questions, everything that we've

been able to observe and gather, all of that will be considered

as we move forward."

These are the candidates: