NYPD policeman watches outside Times Square, New York City, October 5, 2021Bryan R. Smith
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The future New York mayor, Eric Adams, is preparing to appoint for the first time a woman, Keechant Sewell, to the very sensitive post of chief of police of the largest city in the United States, he announced. Tuesday night at the New York Post.
“Keechant Sewell is an accomplished crime fighter who has the experience and intelligence to provide the safety New Yorkers need and provide them the justice they deserve,” said Eric Adams, himself a former policeman, the daily favorite of the conservatives.
The first woman to lead NYPD, she will be the third black person in the post, while Democrat Eric Adams will be the second black mayor in the history of the mega-city on the East Coast. Both will take up their duties on January 1, 2022.
At the head of around 35,000 police officers in the largest city in the United States (nearly 9 million inhabitants), Keechant Sewell, 49, will have the heavy task of maintaining security in New York as the coronavirus pandemic was accompanied by a surge in crime in 2020. All while restoring the confidence of the population in its police, accused of having in its ranks violent, racist and corrupt agents.
Security had been one of the main issues of the campaign for mayor of New York.
“Welcome Chief Sewell to the second toughest police job in America. The first, of course, being being a NYPD cop on the streets,” greeted the boss of the first union. city police officers (PBA), Patrick Lynch.
Keechant Sewell is currently the Chief Investigator in Nassau County, east of New York City.
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