Fort Mitchell welcomed its new police chief, Rob Nader, at its meeting this week. Nader was appointed in November 2022.
Nader, who spent 25 years as a Covington police officer, replaces Andrew Schierberg, who retired in November.
During his first police department report to the Fort Mitchell City Council, Nader said he has spent the last month going on ridealongs with fellow officers to get to know his team and the city from a police perspective. Nader mentioned that he’s been having a lot of fun meeting everyone in the department.
Nader also said that he worked the night of the ice storm in December, and he said the city handled the severe weather very well.
Nader, a Covington native, served as Covington’s police chief from 2017 to 2022. While Covington has a larger population than Fort Mitchell and sees more police calls, Nader said, he primarily learned from small-town police chiefs.
As a current Fort Mitchell resident, Nader said he loves the city’s “urban feel with village neighborhoods,” where people rely on their neighbors and form tight-knit communities.
He’s already gotten a chance to interact with these small communities. The Fort Mitchell Police Department receives many complaints and concerns about intersections along Dixie Highway where traffic can be fast-paced and dangerous, he said.
Nader said he was walking his dog near one such intersection the other day when he saw
one of his officers pull over a driver. So, when Nader received a complaint about traffic on Dixie Highway later that day, he was pleased to be able to tell the citizen that his officers were already working on addressing the
situation.
This is just one example of Nader being “excited to get started,” in his own words, and taking the initiative to demonstrate that.
After Nader’s first Council report on current functions of the Fort Mitchell Police Department, Councilmember Jerry Deatherage remarked “the uniform looks great on you.”