City Of Sacramento’s New Police Chief Kathy Lester Sworn In Friday

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Chief Kathy Lester was sworn successful Friday arsenic the 46th Chief of Police for the Sacramento Police Department.

Today, successful a tiny ceremonial successful City Council Chambers, our precise ain Chief Kathy Lester was sworn successful arsenic the 46th Chief of Police for the Sacramento Police Department. A larger solemnisation of Chief Lester is being planned for a aboriginal date.

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— Sacramento Police (@SacPolice) December 31, 2021

A 27-year seasoned of the Sacramento Police Department, Lester volition beryllium the archetypal pistillate to clasp the position.

“I americium thrilled that Kathy has accepted this accidental to proceed to service her assemblage successful this caller capacity,” said City Manager Howard Chan. “During her clip with the Sacramento Police Department, she has proven herself to beryllium a dynamic person with an unwavering committedness to diversity, equity, accountability, and innovation. There is nary 1 amended to service successful this relation and to proceed the ongoing efforts of the section and its outstanding employees.”

Lester holds a bachelor’s grade successful authorities and planetary relations from Sacramento State University and a master’s grade successful geosciences from Mississippi State University. Lester, whose household has been successful Sacramento for generations, served successful the Army earlier joining the Sacramento Police Department. She studied Russian astatine the Defense Language Institute successful Monterey, California, and aboriginal worked arsenic a subject interpreter, combat medic, and scope master.

Lester has accomplished a batch during her clip successful the Sacramento Police Department, immoderate of her notable accomplishments being:

Establishing Sac PD’s Pipeline Hiring Program, which has helped to summation diverseness wrong the department.
Establishing a full-time intelligence wellness squad wrong the department, led by a licensed societal worker.
Designing and securing assistance backing and processing younker diversion programs arsenic alternatives to detention for juveniles.
Implementing gender-awareness grooming for each officers, based connected the POST-approved program primitively developed by San Francisco County.
Implementing disproportionate-minority-contact and implicit bias training, resulting successful changes to the POST program and Sacramento becoming the archetypal municipal bureau successful the authorities to follow this training.
Creating the Outreach and Engagement Division, expanding assemblage outreach efforts to aggregate taste groups, and expanding partnerships with community-based organizations.
Partnering with a squad of scientists from astir the state connected the Safe and Connected Communities grant, which looks to marque susceptible populations much resilient to earthy disasters.

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Lester volition beryllium successful complaint of a section with implicit 1,100 sworn and civilian employees successful her caller role.