Foregoing a national search, Mayor-elect Corey O'Connor is expected to nominate former Police Commander Jason Lando as Pittsburgh's next chief.

The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police is at historically low staffing numbers, with officers fighting burnout from mandated overtime and patrolling in police cruisers past their useful age. For these reasons, O'Connor said he needs a full-time chief as soon as possible.

"Doing a national search for chief of police, we don't want that. Nobody wants to waste taxpayer money on something like that and I believe I was elected to make these determinations and we're going to be ready to make that," O'Connor said.

O'Connor is set to name Lando to fill that role. Lando currently serves as the chief of Frederick, Maryland. But before that, he had risen through

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