The City’s Department of Human Resources is charged with establishing a comprehensive personnel management program based on merit principles designed to recruit, develop, and retain the best qualified civil servants. Why is it necessary for the Police Commission to spend $75,000 for a consultant to screen and whittle down the list of applicants to the top four or five for the Commission consideration and another $24,000 for a local psychologist “to provide input,” whatever that means?   Have they no confidence in the City’s HR Department?  It seems to me the HR Department should be qualified to do this without having to spend $100,000 for every high-ranking official.