New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, the first woman to lead the nation's largest police department, on Monday said she is resigning after serving 18 months in the post.
The surprise departure was announced by Sewell, 51, to her colleagues in a brief letter, posted online by local television station WABC-TV, in which she praised the "compassion, heroics and selflessness" of members of the New York Police Department .
Sewell, a 23-year veteran of the police department in Nassau County, New York, where she was chief of detectives, became the first woman and third African American, to head the NYPD, overseeing some 35,000 uniformed offices and 18,000 civilian employees. "The commissioner worked nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a year and a half, and we are all grateful for her service," he said on Twitter.
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