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Polygamous community seeks police chief who isn’t from there

Now all they have to do is find someone who wants to be in charge of policing a community filled with former and current polygamous sect members.

The twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., are going to get a new chief marshal. Internal candidates weren’t qualified, Hildale Mayor Donia Jessop said Thursday. So the towns’ monitor and police consultant, who are the ones making the hiring decision, are expected to choose someone who isn’t from the towns.

That could be the biggest change yet for government and police in Hildale and Colorado City, collectively known as Short Creek and home to the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.