STANFORD - The Stanford Village Board will look to hire a new police chief Friday night, hoping to reactivate a department that was shut down in the aftermath of allegations the town's mayor was targeted in a traffic stop in March. | Video: Watch the traffic stop

The board will review more than 10 police chief applicants in executive session during the special meeting at 6 p.m., said Stanford Mayor Margaret Campbell. The hope is to hire one of those applicants that night, possibly reactivating the department within weeks, Campbell said.

The hourly wage or salary for the part-time position has not yet been set, Campbell said Wednesday. The deadline to submit an application was Sept. 15. "We had one from Arizona," Campbell said.

Stanford has been without its own police department since mid-May, about two months after Campbell was stopped by part-time Stanford police officer Ramiro Bosquez, who was also a McLean County sheriff's deputy. She received headlight- and registration-related tickets during the March 21 stop.

But in late April, McLean County State's Attorney Bill Yoder said evidence indicated Campbell was targeted and he dismissed the citations. That evidence included video footage from Bosquez's patrol car during the stop, where the officer was heard saying "I told you I was gonna get her," while on the phone with his boss, then-Stanford Police Chief Everett Copeland.

Yoder's office, after reviewing a state police investigation, said it wouldn't pursue criminal charges. Copeland, who previously denied any of his officers had ever gone after anyone personally for a traffic stop, said the mayor had a vendetta against him.

The Village Board voted unanimously in July not to renew Copeland's contract. He had been on leave since mid-May, effectively shutting down the town's police department. Bosquez left both jobs.

In the meantime, the sheriff's department has been performing extra patrols in the community. The sheriff's department assisted the hiring process by performing background checks on the applicants, Campbell said.

Copeland was salaried, but she said it was unclear if the new chief will be hourly or salaried, and she said she didn't know what Copeland, part-time employee of 13 years, was making when his contract was not renewed.