Erroll Southers is stepping down from the Los Angeles Police Commission, officials confirmed Saturday.

“Dr. Southers is stepping down from his role as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners. At this time, we have no further comment,” Sarah Bell, public information director for the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, told City News Service on Saturday.

Southers’ final commission meeting will be Oct. 21, the Los Angeles Times reported. No replacement has been announced.

No reason was given for the decision, but The Times reported that Southers wanted to pursue other professional opportunities, and was not asked to submit his resignation.

Last month, the Los Angeles City Council delayed a vote on the Southers’ reappointment to the board after his first ended June 30.

In August, Mayor Karen Bass nominated Southers to serve on the board for another term, which would have ended in June 2030. Southers previously served as the president of the commission — the five-member panel that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department.

Southers is USC’s associate vice president of safety and risk assurance, overseeing the departments of public safety, environmental health and safety, as well as fire safety and emergency planning. He is also professor of the practice in national and homeland security at USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.

Southers was deputy director for critical infrastructure of the California Office of Homeland Security, assistant chief of homeland security and intelligence with the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department, assistant vice president for visitor services and chief of protective services for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an FBI special agent and a Santa Monica Police Department officer.

He received a doctorate of policy, planning and development from USC.

The Times reported that Southers’ work in counter-terrorism in Israel in the 2000s has drawn fire from activists who oppose Israel’s more recent war against Hamas in Gaza.

Bass first appointed him to the commission in 2023.

The five-member Police Commission is already down one member. Jeff Skobin, son of former commissioner Alan Skobin, will have his nomination to the board heard by a City Council committee on Wednesday.