Midlands city hires new assistant police chief. Here’s what to know.
The city of Cayce has named a new assistant police chief to help lead its department, the city announced in a Thursday press release.
Jonathan E. von Moltke has been hired to serve as assistant police chief alongside Chief Bruce Wade, who the city hired a little less than a year ago after months of turmoil within the department over its leadership. Wade came to Cayce from nearby city West Columbia.
“New Assistant Chief von Moltke brings a rare combination of investigative expertise, training excellence, and servant leadership,” Wade said in a press release.
Von Moltke has been with the police department since November of last year, according to his Linkedin. He’s held various roles in law enforcement since 2012, including as a field training officer with the S.C. Criminal Justice Academy and a sergeant for the state’s Department of Mental Health. He’d spent three years as a freelance author — writing a book about self-defense and another about surviving the apocalypse — before taking a job with Cayce, according to his Linkedin.
Von Moltke will help lead the roughly 70-person department alongside Wade, who Cayce hired from West Columbia in March of last year. Wade came to the city amid controversy in the department — the last chief, Herbert Blake, left only three months into the job after multiple staff members lodged complaints that he had created a toxic work environment.
