NYC Mayor Eric Adams officially names Edward Caban as new NYPD commissioner

New York Town Mayor Eric Adams officially named a brand new NYPD commissioner Monday just about a month after Keechant Sewell’s departure as division head. 

At a press convention on the NYPD’s fortieth precinct, Adams named First Deputy Commissioner Edward A. Caban as his new NYPD Commissioner. 

Caban, now town’s first Latino commissioner, were serving as meantime commissioner since Sewell’s resignation went into impact on June 30. 

The fortieth precinct is the place Caban first started his occupation on the NYPD as a police officer greater than 3 a long time in the past in 1991, patrolling the streets of the south Bronx. 

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In 2022, Caban changed into the NYPD’s First Deputy Commissioner, main a vast vary of company purposes consistent with the strategic imaginative and prescient of the Police Commissioner, together with: coverage building, team of workers control, recruit and in-service coaching, and general supervision of the dep.’s self-discipline device, consistent with his division bio. 

He used to be designated the Performing Police Commissioner of the Town of New York by way of Adams on July 1. 

Caban’s father, Juan, used to be a New York Town Transit Police Detective, who additionally served because the President of the Transit Police Hispanic Society.

New York Town Mayor Eric Adams and then-NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell attend a New York Town Police Academy Commencement Rite at Madison Sq. Lawn on April 24, 2023 in New York.  (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP by the use of Getty Pictures)

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Sewell, the primary feminine and 3rd African American NYPD commissioner, penned a resignation letter to colleagues in mid-June. 

“I’ve made the verdict to step down from my place,” she wrote, with out providing an evidence. “Whilst my time right here will come to a detailed, I can by no means step clear of my advocacy and strengthen for the NYPD, and I can at all times be a champion for the folks of New York Town.”

New York Town Mayor Eric Adams speaks all through a press convention on gun violence on the Place of business of Leader Scientific Examiner on June 26, 2023 in New York Town. Adams used to be joined by way of First Deputy Commissioner Edward A. Caban.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)

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“I used to be aware of the demanding situations you confronted each earlier than I arrived and what you enjoy day by day,” Sewell stated. “Because of this I made your wellness one among my priorities. We can’t be anticipated to ship the kind and high quality of police services and products that New Yorkers deserve until we maintain and give protection to the guardians of this town.

Her departure got here simply 18 months after Adams first appointed Sewell to the placement in December 2021. Maximum just lately earlier than then, Sewell used to be leader of detectives in Nassau County.