On January 1, 2022, a 49-year-old female will assume as head of the New York Police.
The security of the largest city in the United States will be in the hands of a woman for the first time. Future New York Mayor Eric Adams is poised to appoint Keechant Sewell as Police Chief, the newspaper announced Tuesday night. The New York Post.
“Keechant Sewell is an accomplished crime fighter who has the experience and intelligence to provide the security New Yorkers need,” Eric Adams, himself a former police officer, told the newspaper.
The first woman to head the New York Police Department (NYPD), she will be the third black person in office, while Democrat Adams will be the second black mayor in the city’s history. Both will take office on January 1, the news agency reported. AFP.
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Keechant Sewell is currently chief of detectives for the New York county of Nassau, she is 49 years old, has 25 years of experience and in the future will direct some 35,000 agents with whom she must maintain security in New York. According to the agency, in the Big Apple, as the city is known, crime increased in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Another of Sewell’s challenges is to restore the population’s trust in the police, accused of having violent, racist and corrupt agents in their ranks, he notes AFP.
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Keechant Sewell’s rise becomes a milestone for the 176-year-old NYPD. The woman has declared herself ready to go to work and honored with the designation.
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