D.C. mayor launching nationwide search to replace 911 director

Peter HermannThe Office of Unified Communications will need a new director after the candidate who was nominated for the job withdrew. District officials are embarking on a nationwide search for a new leader of the city’s much-scrutinized 911 center after its embattled acting director withdrew her name from the nomination process while facing opposition on the D.C. Council.

on her nomination, saying it appeared they had enough votes to oust her. Holmes had lost the support of the head of the council’s public safety committee and the council chairman after a scathing audit and a string of failed dispatch calls, some resulting in deaths. Holmes and her supporters made one last attempt to keep her in the job with a publicity blitz that started Friday, with the mayor and police and fire chiefsfor planning a vote without first holding a confirmation hearing. The lobbying effort

continued through the weekend with an e-mail campaign to elected officials directed by the labor union representing workers at the 911 center.But Monday night, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser sent out a news release announcing that Holmes had withdrawn. Holmes will serve an additional two months as interim director while the search for her successor moves forward. She had led the 911 center from 2015 to 2021 before she returned as its acting director in March.

“Director Holmes was the right leader at the right time for OUC,” Bowser said in her statement. “She improved morale in a high-stress agency that had previously suffered from chronic under-staffing.”Supporters say Holmes has been unfairly judged on a handful of errors amid 1.4 million 911 calls made each year.

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