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UNITED STATES – A strong gesture for the “NYPD”. The future mayor of New York, 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. this Tuesday December 14 at New York Post.
The first woman to lead NYPD in 176 years, 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 megalopolis on the east coast. Both will take up their duties on January 1, 2022.
“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 at New York Post. Until then, she held the post of chief investigator in Nassau County, east of New York.
25-year career on the clock
At the head of about 35,000 police officers in the largest city in the United States (nearly 9 million people), Keechant Sewell, 49, will have the difficult task of maintaining security in New York as the pandemic of coronavirus was accompanied by a surge in crime in 2020. All this 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.
In her first press interview, New York City’s future 45th first cop was confident: “I’ve been in the police force for 25 years, so I actually have a kind of understanding of what, in my opinion, works and does not work ”. The one who followed several specialized training with the FBI immediately wanted to show her priority: “I want to let them know that we are absolutely focused on violent crimes. Violent crime is the number one priority ″, she said daily.
“Welcome Chief Sewell to the second toughest police job in America. The first, of course, being that of being a NYPD police officer in the street, ”said the boss of the city’s first police union (PBA), Patrick Lynch, to welcome him.
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