Norristown Council has hired a Reading-based search firm known as SafeCity Solutions to help it find a new police chief.

Long-time Chief Russell Bono is retiring at the end of next month.

The company will charge more than $9,000 to prepare a professional ad and identify up to 15 semifinalists and narrow the field down to three finalists.  At that point council and Municipal Administrator David Forrest will decide which one to hire.