Tom Donlon, a prominent former FBI and counterterrorism official, will serve as the NYPD’s interim commissioner, Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday.
The appointment came after Adams said he accepted the resignation of embattled commissioner Edward Cabanwho resigned amid a federal probe that saw agents seize electronic devices from his home.
“I am taking immediate action to appoint Tom Donlon as interim police commissioner,” Adams said in a video address.
“Tom is a seasoned law enforcement expert who has worked at the local, state, federal and international levels.”
Donlon, a Bronx native, served as New York Director of the Office of Homeland Securityran the FBI’s National Threat Assessment Center and the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force.
He also worked as a cold case agent investigating the 1993 bombing of the Twin Towers, as well as the attacks on US embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen by al-Qaeda.
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