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UNITED STATES – A strong gesture for the “NYPD”. Future New York Mayor Eric Adams is set to appoint a woman, Keechant Sewell, to the highly sensitive post of police chief for the largest city in the United States for the first time, he announced. this Tuesday, December 14 at New York Post.
First woman to lead the police New York in 176 years, she will be the third black person in this position, while the Democrat, Eric Adams, will be the second black mayor in the history of the east coast megacity. 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 the justice they deserve,” said Eric Adams, himself a former policeman New York Post. Until then, she held the position of chief investigator in Nassau County, east of New York.
25 years of career on the clock
At the head of approximately 35,000 police officers in largest city in the United States (nearly 9 million people), 49-year-old Keechant Sewell will have the daunting task of keeping New York City safe as the coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by a spike in crime in 2020. The while restoring the population’s confidence in its police, accused of having violent, racist and corrupt agents in its ranks. Security had been one of the main issues in the campaign for mayor of New York.
For her first press interview, the soon-to-be 45th New York City First Cop sounded confident: “I’ve been on the force for 25 years, so I actually kind of have an understanding of what, in my opinion, works and does not work”. The one who has followed several advanced training courses 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 to Chief Sewell for the second toughest police job in the United States. The first, of course, being that of being an NYPD policeman on the street,” said the boss of the city’s first police union (PBA), Patrick Lynch, to welcome him.
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