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Mayor-elect Eric Adams on Wednesday named Keechant Sewell as the next NYPD commissioner, making her the first Black woman to lead the country’s largest police department. Melissa Russo reports.

Mayor-elect Eric Adams appointed Keechant Sewell as the next NYPD commissioner, the first woman to hold the post.

Mayor-elect Eric Adams is expected to appoint Keechant Sewell as the next NYPD commissioner after the current head of the police department retires at the end of the year NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Keechant Sewell, the Nassau County chief of detectives, is the leading candidate to be the next NYPD commissioner, sources tell News 4. She would be the first Black woman to lead the department.

Mayor-elect Eric Adams is expected to appoint Keechant Sewell as the next NYPD commissioner after the current head of the police department retires at the end of the year, multiple sources tell News 4 New York.

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea and the department’s second in command, First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker, will finish their full terms and retire at the end of the year, according to an NYPD spokesperson. “Police Commissioner Shea and First Deputy Commissioner Tucker will have a lot more to say in the coming weeks as they discuss their public service and...

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday that eight of his officers have been hospitalized with COVID-19 in serious condition and urged others to get vaccinated.