Keechant Sewell, first woman to lead the NYPD
The 49-year-old black woman, who will take up her post in January, will have the daunting task of maintaining security as the coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by a spike in crime.
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. Tuesday evening 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 the justice they deserve,” said Eric Adams, himself a former policeman, at the favorite daily of the conservatives.
The first woman to lead the New York police force, she will be the third black person in this position, while Democrat Eric Adams will be the second black mayor in the history of the East Coast megalopolis. Both will take office on January 1, 2022.
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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 difficult task of maintaining security in New York during the pandemic. of coronavirus had been accompanied by a surge in crime in 2020. All this 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.
“Welcome Chief Sewell to the second toughest police job in America. The first, of course, being that of being an NYPD policeman on the street,” welcomed the boss of the city’s first police union (PBA), Patrick Lynch.
Keechant Sewell currently serves as chief investigator in Nassau County, east of New York.
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