University of California officials announced Monday that former acting United States Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman will assume leadership of the campus police department early next year.
BERKELEY — University of California officials announced Monday that former acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman will assume leadership of the campus police department in February.
“Nothing is more important than the safety and well-being of our community, and I am confident that Yogananda Pittman has all of the skills, qualities and experience necessary to excel as our next police chief at UC Berkeley,” UC Chancellor Carol Christ said in a statement. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Morgan State University in Baltimore and a master’s degree in public administration from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and is working toward her Ph.D. from West Chester University in Pennsylvania, assembling a thesis on gender diversity in law enforcement.
At the time of the Jan. 6 insurrection, she was the department’s assistant chief of protective and intelligence operations, tasked with overseeing the capitol’s security and assessing threats to lawmakers’ safety.
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