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Jessica Tisch will oversee top officials who have behaved questionably in public and private. Her supporters say she does not put up with posturing or incompetence. Jessica Tisch will confront [...]

Ms. Tisch, a member of a prominent New York family who has held several positions in city government, will take over the nation's largest police department. Mayor Eric Adams on [...]

Edward Caban had been asked to quit after federal agents seized his phone as part of a criminal investigation, one of several involving members of the administration. Edward A. Caban, […]

Byline: Jack Troy Jul. 11Anyone who hoped to hear Kiski Township supervisors speak on the departure of former Chief Lee Bartolicius on Wednesday night left sorely disappointed. Township Solicitor Ryan [...]

Byline: Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY Seattle's top cop has been dismissed and reassigned to a new role amid hiring challenges as well as mounting lawsuits against the police department alleging [...]

Byline: Emily DeLetter and Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY The University of California, Los Angeles, has 'temporarily' reassigned the school's police chief following protests and violent clashes on campus over Israel's [...]

Byline: Kellen Stepler Sep. 20Allegheny Township filled one of its vacant public safety positions, and will begin to advertise for another one. The supervisors appointed Matt Johnston, 29, of Allegheny [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Sep. 12Allegheny Township's police chief is headed to Eastern Pennsylvania. Chief Duane Fisher, who succeeded longtime Chief John Fontaine in 2018, was named police chief Monday night [...]

Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, 49, will take charge of a besieged department. She is the fifth person to lead Louisville's police since June 2020. Louisville's interim police chief, Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, will continue [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann and Emily Davies WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Monday named Pamela A. Smith as the District's next police chief, nominating a former U.S. [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Jul. 16Part-time Parks Township police Officer Kyle Lewis will be announced as chief of the department on Monday. Supervisor Chairman Greg Artman said Lewis will take over [...]

Byline: Joe Napsha Jun. 21Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Wednesday, June 21: Two-sport star to be honored by Pittsburgh A former star Pitt basketball [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jun. 8Larry Scirotto on Wednesday was formally sworn in as Pittsburgh's 55th police chief. Scirotto has been serving as acting chief since Mayor Ed Gainey nominated him [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi May 24The Harrison Commissioners didn't break the law but they appear to have violated the intent of the state's Open Meetings law when they voted during last [...]

Byline: Haley Daugherty May 24Latrobe's council chambers was filled with people this week as they watched a familiar face become the city's police chief. Richard Bosco will be returning to [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi May 23Harrison has a new police chief for the first time in nearly three decades. Sgt. Brian Turack, a member of the department for about 12 years, [...]

Byline: Julia Felton May 23Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Larry Scirotto as the city's new police chief. Mayor Ed Gainey nominated the veteran Pittsburgh police officer early this [...]

Byline: Julia Felton May 22Pittsburgh City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on Larry Scirotto's nomination as the city's new police chief. Mayor Ed Gainey earlier this month announced Scirotto [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann, Emily Davies and Michael Brice-Saddler Ashan M. Benedict, the D.C. police department's second-in-command, will serve as interim police chief after the announcement that Robert J. Contee III [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer May 16Shannon Santucci, winner of Tuesday's Democratic primary for mayor of Arnold, says she will change the leadership of the city's police department should she continue [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci May 3Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has nominated Larry Scirotto to be the city's next police chief. The nomination, announced in a news conference Wednesday morning, needs City [...]

Byline: Emily Davies WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Thursday she will conduct a nationwide search to find the city's next police chief, seeking to fill what [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann, Michael Brice-Saddler, Emily Davies and Keith L. Alexander WASHINGTON - D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III is planning to retire, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Apr. 21Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey on Friday said he is waiting on candidates' background checks before announcing his nominee for the city's new police chief. Those background [...]

Byline: Justin Vellucci Apr. 10Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey is expected to name the city's next police chief soon, possibly within days, according to those close to the hiring process. Gainey [...]

Byline: WILLOW FIDDLER; Staff THUNDER BAY -- An RCMP veteran from Manitoba has been selected as Thunder Bay's new police chief, the city's police board announced Tuesday, months ahead of [...]

Byline: Ovetta Wiggins Gov. Wes Moore (D) has tapped Lt. Colonel Roland L. Butler Jr. to lead the Maryland State Police, an agency in the throes of a federal probe [...]

Byline: Tony LaRussa Jan. 17Ross Township officials broke with the long-standing tradition of promoting their most senior police officer to chief when an opening comes up. With help from a [...]

Byline: Tony LaRussa Jan. 17Ross Township officials broke with the long-standing tradition of promoting their most senior police officer to chief when an opening comes up. With help from a [...]

Byline: Julia Felton Jan. 12Pittsburgh public safety officials on Thursday said they hope to have a new police chief in place in April. Former Chief Scott Schubert retired in July [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Jan. 6As a crowd gathered blocks from the Brackenridge municipal office Thursday to honor slain police Chief Justin McIntire, council met briefly to name an officer-in-charge of [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-April 13, 2023-: Kenya: President Appoints New Police Chiefs (C)1994-2023 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:12042023 Douglas Kanja Kirocho is the new Deputy Inspector-General of the Kenya Police Service. Mr Kirocho, who [...]

Byline: MOLLY HAYES; Staff Indigenous leaders in Manitoba are calling on Winnipeg's police chief to resign, after he refused to search a landfill for the remains of two women believed [...]

Byline: Andrea Salcedo The Uvalde, Tex., officer in charge of the city's police department when a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers, has [...]

An Upstate police captain has taken on a new role as chief of police for another Upstate city. Captain Patrick Fortenberry, a 27-year veteran of the Greer Police Department, will [...]

Byline: WILLOW FIDDLER; Staff The Deputy Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation in Northern Ontario says selecting an Indigenous police chief to lead the Thunder Bay Police Service out of [...]

Byline: Niki Griswold, Luz Moreno-Lozano, and Katie Hall, Austin American-Statesman UVALDE, Texas - The Uvalde school board has fired school district police chief Pete Arredondo, a move that came three [...]

The chief, Pete Arredondo, had been criticized for waiting too long to rescue students and teachers trapped in two classrooms with the gunman. UVALDE, Texas -- Facing intense pressure from [...]

Byline: Arelis R. Hernández The Uvalde school board voted unanimously to fire Pedro 'Pete' Arredondo three months after a massacre that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers [...]

Byline: Tony Plohetski, USA TODAY AUSTIN, Texas - The Uvalde schools superintendent is recommending district police Chief Pete Arredondo be fired for his role in the flawed response to the [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian and Arelis R. Hernández Pedro 'Pete' Arredondo, whose delayed response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has been widely criticized, resigned Saturday [...]

Byline: Teo Armus and Adela Suliman The Uvalde, Texas, schools police chief who sparked a widespread outcry over his decision not to immediately storm a classroom where dozens of children [...]