NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is reportedly expected to announce Tuesday that retiring NYPD Chief of Department Rodney Harrison will be the county's next police commissioner.
Harrison, who joined the NYPD as a cadet in 1991 and became the first person to rise from that rank to Chief of Department, announced last month that he's retiring from the department at the end of December.
Multiple reports on Monday said that the 52-year-old is poised to become the first black commissioner in Suffolk County history.
Bellone is expected to make the announcement during an 11:30 a.m. news conference on Tuesday.
A former NYPD Chief of Detectives and Chief of Patrol, Harrison would succeed Acting Commissioner Stuart Cameron after the county's first female commissioner, Geraldine Hart, resigned in 2021.
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