City Of Sacramento Names Next Police Chief

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The metropolis of Sacramento has chosen its adjacent constabulary chief.

The Sacramento Police Department made the announcement connected societal media Friday that the caller main volition beryllium Deputy Chief of Operations Kathy Lester, a 27-year-old seasoned of the Department.

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Lester volition beryllium the Department’s 46th main and the archetypal pistillate to clasp the position.

“I americium humbled by this assignment and by the accidental to service our residents successful this role,” Lester said successful a statement. “I joined the Sacramento Police Department due to the fact that of its estimation for community-based policing, and that tone of assemblage and collaboration has agelong been instilled successful me. I look guardant to continuing the ongoing enactment by the Sacramento Police Department to marque our metropolis a spot wherever everyone feels safe, unafraid and protected.”

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Chief Daniel Hahn successful August made nationalist his program to discontinue astatine the extremity of the year. He’s served successful the presumption for 4 years.

Here’s what Darrell Steinberg had to accidental astir the appointment.

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“Kathy Lester is not conscionable a home-grown endowment and a historical appointment; she is 100 percent the close idiosyncratic to pb this section astatine this time, displaying an unparalleled breadth of acquisition arsenic good arsenic the values captious to our communities,” said Mayor Darrell Steinberg. “I cognize she volition beryllium terrific successful this presumption and proceed the precocious standards acceptable by Chief Hahn.”