Veteran Police Official Edward Caban Sworn in as New NYPD Commissioner

NEW YORK—Edward Caban, who joined the New York Police Department as a young patrol officer in 1991 and rose through the ranks, was sworn in Monday as police commissioner, becoming the first Latino to lead the 178-year-old department.
Mayor Eric Adams administered the oath of office in front of the Bronx stationhouse where Mr. Caban started his career, and praised his new police commissioner as “representative of this blue-collar city.”
Mr. Caban, the son of a transit police officer who served with Mr. Adams when the now-mayor was on the transit force, said he joined the NYPD as “a young Puerto Rican kid” at a time when when “the top bosses of the police department didn’t really look like me.”…