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WVAS | By Melanie Hogan

Published July 22, 2022 at 6:52 PM EDT

The Montgomery Police Department has made some changes within the department. The department was restructured to provide better accountability, efficiency and workload redistribution according to Montgomery Police Chief Darryl Albert, who named a new leadership team.

Chief Albert named Denise Barnes the chief of operations, John Hall the chief of investigations, and Zedrick Dean the chief of staff.

Albert says he is very proud of his entire department.

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Melanie Hogan

Melanie began her career as a work study student, working in the areas of news reporting, anchoring and news-gathering. After graduating from Alabama State University, she worked as a production assistant at the local NBC affiliate, WSFA-TV. As a News Director at WVAS-FM, Melanie leads her team to produce award- winning newscasts and talk shows. Her professional achievements includes News Reporter of the Year for a number of years and awards for talk show producer, by the Alabama Broadcasters Association and the Associated Press. She is an active member of the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce. Her goals are to expand the reach of WVAS FM into more homes locally, regionally and nationally.

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