The 49-year-old Keechant Sewell will lead the largest police agency in the USA in New York from January. Fighting violent crime is “top priority” for the experienced police officer.
She will be female and black. The future Democratic mayor Eric Adams, himself a former cop, had announced his New York police chief weeks ago. Safety in the City, where violent crime has skyrocketed over the past year, was his main campaign theme. On Wednesday he introduced Keechant Sewell to the public.
The police department in New York is the largest in the USA
The 49-year-old, who previously worked in the suburban Nassau County, will lead the largest police agency in the United States from January: 35,000 people in uniform (of which 81 percent are men) plus 18,000 civilians. Among them…
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