Keechant Sewell

The new Chief of Police, Keechant Sewell, selected by Mayor-elect Eric Adams at the presentation to the press (2021)

Keechant L. Sewell (born April 2, 1972 ) is an American police officer in a prominent executive position. Since the beginning of 2022 she leads in New York City as Police Commissioner , the New York City Police Department , the police department of the city and largest police unit of the United States .

Life

Sewell is from Queens , one of the five boroughs of New York City . She spent her early childhood in the social housing of Queensbridge Houses , later she lived in the districts of Corona and Jamaica . As of December 2021, Sewell is at home in Valley Stream on Long Island , is unmarried and has no children.

Career

Sewell has been in the police force since 1997. Sewell received specialist training in counter-terrorism and negotiating with hostage-takers at the FBI . Before moving to the top of the NYPD, she worked for the police in neighboring Nassau County for 23 years , most recently in an executive position as Chief of Detectives . Sewell is only the third person of African American descent and a woman in this position for the first time. She took over the office at the suggestion of New York City Mayor Eric Adams . The predecessor in office was Dermot Shea . Although it had been expected that the position would be taken by a woman, Sewell's appointment came as a surprise.

Web links

• Keechant Sewell on the NYPD website
• Hubert Wetzel : New York police get a boss for the first time. Sueddeutsche.de , December 15, 2021, accessed on January 1, 2022. Pay barrier.
• Marc Pitzke : A woman against the gangs. (Keechant Sewell, who will be the first black man to take over the management of the famous New York Police Department (NYPD) on Friday ... Who is this woman? Report in Spiegel-Online from December 31, 2021. Pay barrier.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Julia Marsh, Craig McCarthy: Eric Adams picks Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD. New York Post , December 14, 2021, accessed January 1, 2022.
2. ^ New York's Next Police Boss, a Queens Native, Comes 'Full Circle' . In: New York Times . Retrieved December 15, 2021.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hubert Wetzel: New York's police get a boss for the first time. Sueddeutsche.de , December 15, 2021, accessed on January 1, 2022.
4. ↑ Overview of the management of the county's police force , version dated December 15, 2021 in the Internet Archive .
5. ^ Sewell to be 1st woman, 3rd Black person to lead NYC police. The Independent , December 15, 2021, accessed January 1, 2022.