NYPD Chief of Department Ken Corey to retire after less than a year in top post

NYPD Chief of Division Ken Corey will step away after lower than a yr because the division’s high-ranking uniformed officer, police officers introduced Thursday.

Corey, who was promoted from Chief of Coaching with the incoming Adams administration in January, informed shut colleagues at a celebration in police headquarters Thursday that he was retiring from the NYPD, police sources stated.

He'll step down on the finish of November.

“Policing is among the many nice passions in my life,” Corey stated in a press release. “I've now been offered with a possibility to enhance policing on a nationwide – and even worldwide – degree. It was a possibility I merely couldn't permit to cross.”

He didn't broaden on his new job.

As chief of division, Corey — who joined the pressure in 1990 — is among the most seen members of the NYPD and oversees a division of 35,000 cops.

Corey and Mayor Adams have been condemned for the uptick in crime in current months.

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Below his management, the NYPD has seen some success in combating gun violence, recording a 12% downtick from final yr. He performed a key function in rolling out the NYPD’s revamped anti-crime groups to crack down on unlawful weapons.

However main crime in NYC continued to climb all year long.

The Large Apple has seen a greater than 30% enhance in 2022 in critical felonies from final yr — in addition to the prepandemic yr of 2017, police information reveals. The one main crime metric to see a lower was homicide, which consultants have attributed to the discount in shootings.

The division has additionally struggled to gradual the violence within the subway system, with the town seeing its ninth murder on the underground for the primary time because the Nineties.

Sources suspect the transfer is the primary domino to fall in a shake-up of police brass.

Rumors have swirled for weeks internally that Corey would quickly be retiring, with sources saying believing his enthusiasm for the function had diminished, however the chief denied it as gossip.

He took over for Rodney Harrison, who left the NYPD in late 2021 to run the Suffolk County Police Division.

“Chief Corey has been a beacon of excellence for officers in each rank – at each station. The sunshine of his management will stay a shining information ahead for all of us and his contributions to our career will likely be eternal,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell stated in a press release.