Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is facing a bruising backlash over his handling of the Nancy Guthrie hunt in Tucson, Arizona, after a retired SWAT commander claimed that 98 per cent of commissioned officers in his own department had delivered a 'no confidence' verdict in his leadership in an internal morale poll.
The news came after Nanos, who leads the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, told NBC News on Tuesday that investigators were 'definitely closer' to identifying whoever is responsible for her disappearance from her Tucson home on 1 February. His optimistic tone jarred with at least one former senior colleague, who argues that the sheriff's public messaging is clumsy and his command hollowed out by poor morale.
