New York City Police Commissioner

The New York City police commissioner is the head of the New York City Police Department and presiding member of the Board of Commissioners. The commissioner is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the mayor. The commissioner is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department as well as the appointment of deputies including the chief of department and subordinate officers. Commissioners are civilian administrators, and they and their subordinate deputies are civilians under an oath of office, not sworn members of the force. This is a separate position from the chief of department, who is the senior sworn uniformed member of the force. The first deputy commissioner is the commissioner and department's second-in-command. The office of the police commissioner is located at the NYPD Headquarters, One Police Plaza. Both the commissioner and first deputy commissioner outrank all uniformed officers, including the chief of department.

Governor Benjamin Odel, on Friday, February 22, 1901 signed a bill abolishing the bipartisan board of four police commissioners and the office of chief of police, substituting them for a single commissioner to be in charge of the force. Michael Cotter Murphy, the NYPD's first police commissioner, would be sworn in shortly thereafter.

The commissioner's responsibilities include:

To ensure the effective day-to-day operation of the department To appoint the board of commissioners, the chief of the Department and all subordinate officers To ensure the safety and protection of New York City and its population To ensure the department enforces city, state and federal law

List of superintendents, chiefs, and commissioners

Pre-1901 Prior to 1901, the New York City Police Department was run by a board of four to six commissioners. The following is a list of some of the most famous members of the Police Commission: Presidents of the Board of Commissioners Name Dates in office Mayoral administrationJohn G BergenMember of the Board of Police CommissionersMay 1860 - July 17, 1867Governor Edwin D. Morgan James KelsoNYC Police Superintendent, NYC Police CommissionerNY Times Archives, 1870-73; Mabel Kelso Torrey 1869-1873 William M. Tweed Henry Smith 1873–1874 William Frederick Havemeyer Hugh Gardner 1874 William Frederick Havemeyer George W. Matsell 1874–1875 William Frederick Havemeyer William F. Smith 1877–1879 Smith Ely Jr., Edward Cooper Stephen B. French 1880–1889 William R. Grace, Franklin Edson, Abram Hewitt Charles F. McLean Hugh J. Grant James J. Martin 1892–1894 Hugh J. Grant, Thomas F. Gilroy Theodore Roosevelt 1895–1897 William L. Strong Frank Moss 1897 William L. Strong Bernard J. York 1898–1900 Robert A. Van Wyck Members of the Board of Commissioners George Washington Matsell, 1845–1857, Superintendent John Alexander Kennedy, 1860–1863, Superintendent Abram Duryée, 1873–1874, Commissioner George Washington Walling, 1874–1885, Superintendent William Farrar Smith, 1875–1881, President of the Board of Commissioners Fitz John Porter, 1884–1888, Commissioner Frederick Dent Grant, 1894–1898, Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, 1895–1897, President of the Board of Commissioners John McCullagh, 1897–1898, Superintendent John B. Sexton, 1898–1901, Commissioner William Stephen Devery, May 21, 1898 – June 30, 1898 (acting), June 30, 1898 – February 22, 1901. The superintendent title was changed to Chief of Police in 1898. Devery was the Police Department's last superintendent, and first chief. John McClintock (police commissioner) Deputy Commissioner 1914

Post-1901 Since 1901, a single commissioner has been in charge of the New York Police Department. The following is a list of the commissioners: Name Dates in office Mayoral administration Michael Cotter Murphy February 22, 1901 – January 1, 1902 Robert Van Wyck John Nelson Partridge January 1, 1902 – January 1, 1903 Seth Low Francis Vinton Greene January 1, 1903 – January 1, 1904 William McAdoo January 1, 1904 – January 1, 1906 George B. McClellan Jr. Theodore A. Bingham January 1, 1906 – July 1, 1909 William Frazer Baker July 1, 1909 – October 20, 1910William Jay Gaynor James Church Cropsey October 20, 1910 – May 23, 1911 Rhinelander Waldo May 23, 1911 – December 31, 1913Ardolph Loges Kline Douglas Imrie McKay December 31, 1913 – April 8, 1914John Purroy Mitchel Arthur Hale Woods April 8, 1914 – January 1, 1918 Frederick Hamilton Bugher January 1, 1918 – January 23, 1918 (acting) John Francis Hylan Richard Edward Enright January 23, 1918 – December 30, 1925 George Vincent McLaughlin January 1, 1926 – April 12, 1927 Jimmy Walker Joseph A. Warren April 12, 1927 – December 18, 1928 Grover Aloysius Whalen December 18, 1928 – May 21, 1930 Edward Pierce Mulrooney May 21, 1930 – April 11, 1933Joseph V. McKeeJohn P. O'BrienJames S. Bolan April 15, 1933 – January 1, 1934 John Francis O'Ryan January 1, 1934 – September 25, 1934Fiorello H. La Guardia Lewis Joseph Valentine September 25, 1934 – September 14, 1945 Albert O. Williams September 14, 1945 – September 23, 1945 (acting) Arthur William Wallander September 23, 1945 – February 28, 1949 William O'Dwyer William P. O'Brien February 28, 1949 – September 25, 1950 Thomas Francis Murphy February 21, 1950 – July 6, 1951 Vincent R. Impellitteri George P. Monaghan July 9, 1951 – December 31, 1953Francis William Holbrooke Adams January 1, 1954 – August 2, 1955 Robert F. Wagner Jr.Stephen P. Kennedy August 2, 1955 – February 23, 1961Michael J. Murphy February 23, 1961 – June 7, 1965Vincent Lyons Broderick June 7, 1965 – February 21, 1966 John LindsayHoward R. Leary February 21, 1966 – October 9, 1970 Patrick V. Murphy October 9, 1970 – May 14, 1973Donald Cawley May 14, 1973 – January 1, 1974 Michael Codd January 1, 1974 – January 1, 1978 Abraham D. Beame Robert J. McGuire January 1, 1978 – December 30, 1983 Edward I. Koch William J. Devine December 30, 1983 – January 1, 1984 Benjamin Ward January 1, 1984 – October 23, 1989 Richard J. Condon October 23, 1989 – January 22, 1990 Lee Patrick Brown January 22, 1990 – September 1, 1992 David N. Dinkins Raymond Walter Kelly September 1, 1992 – October 16, 1992 (acting)October 16, 1992 – January 10, 1994 William Joseph Bratton January 10, 1994 – April 15, 1996 Rudolph W. Giuliani Howard Safir April 15, 1996 – August 19, 2000 Bernard Bailey Kerik August 19, 2000 – January 1, 2002 Raymond Walter Kelly January 1, 2002 – January 1, 2014 (second appointment) Michael R. Bloomberg William Joseph Bratton January 1, 2014 – September 16, 2016 (second appointment)Bill de BlasioJames P. O'Neill September 16, 2016 – November 30, 2019Dermot F. SheaDecember 1, 2019 – December 31, 2021Keechant SewellJanuary 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023 Eric AdamsEdward A. CabanJuly 1, 2023 – July 17, 2023 (acting)July 17, 2023 – September 13, 2024Thomas G. Donlon September 13, 2024 – November 25, 2024 (acting)Jessica TischNovember 25, 2024 – currentZohran Mamdani

In popular culture In the police procedural television show Blue Bloods, the fictional New York City police commissioner Frank Reagan is played by Tom Selleck. His father, Henry Reagan, played by Len Cariou, is a former commissioner.

The historical documentary miniseries Theodore Roosevelt depicts the life and political career of President Theodore Roosevelt, which includes Roosevelt’s time as the New York City Police Commissioner in which he worked to rid the NYPD of corruption and the frequent abuse of power by officers.

Salary

The public disclosure of salary as of 2020 is approximately $205,180.00 base, which is considered in line with what most large US cities pay their respective chief of police, and a bit lower than that of the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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