As she was sworn in late Saturday Keechant Sewell made history, becoming the first female commissioner of the New York Police Department since it was founded.
commitment to our great city — and the individuals who are ranked as New York’s Finest,” Sewell, 49, tweeted after the ceremony the city’s police headquarters. “I’m privileged to be here and ready to work!”
Sewell became the 45th police commissioner of the nation’s largest police force after serving as chief of detectives in the Nassau County Police Department where she was based for 25 years. She chose Edward Caban, a former commanding officer of the Harlem district, to be her second in command., who was also sworn into office on Saturday in the city’s Times Square.
Placing one hand on a family Bible, he held a picture of his mother Dorothy, who died in 2020, in the other, as Associate Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix of the state Supreme Court’s appellate division swore him in.A former police captain himself, Adams, 61, spoke out against crime, policing and racial injustice on the campaign trail. He had also promised to choose a female police commissioner for his administration.
He’s the city’s second Black mayor, after David Dinkins who served from 1990 to 1993, and the 110th mayor of New York City.“We want to do gun interdiction, we want to do anti-gun units, we want to do all sorts of things we can use to stop the violence in the city,” Sewell told
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