Pacific Grove is set to appoint Casey Day as the new chief of police on March 31.
Day brings over 25 years of law enforcement experience to the position. He was most recently the chief of police for the city of Fortuna, California.
He spent two decades with the Anderson Police Department. He is also a United States Marine Corps veteran.
Day himself, a sergeant at the time, wound up being department’s nunchuck-instructor, which effectively made him the ninja-cop poster boy — the officer sent to demonstrate his nunchuck skills on numerous TV news segments.
In one such segment, Day told a CNN correspondent that he was initially skeptical of the weapon but quickly came to view them as an effective “restraining tool.”