Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly's successor has not taken office yet, but already he's calling the shots.
William Bratton, the next commissioner of the NYPD, announced he wants to review the résumés of some 200 NYPD supervisors, the New York Daily News learned from a department message on Tuesday. NYPD officials must hand in their résumés by the end of business Wednesday, the message said. Commissioner Kelly's staff will make sure Bratton's staff receives the résumés, the Daily News reported.
One source told the Daily News this is Bratton's "way of getting people's attention."
Lis Smith, Bill de Blasio's spokeswoman, told the Daily News the demand "is a standard procedure practiced by Commissioner Bratton." Mayor-elect de Blasio appointed Bratton as his NYPD commissioner at the beginning of December.
The request applies to officers who rank as inspector and above, including civilian deputy commissioners and directors the Daily News reported.
"People are scrambling," one source said, "You got to see the fear on their faces. They were going out of their f---ing minds," the Daily News reported.
One inspector complained while "going over it and trying to improve" his résumé, the Daily News reported. Another inspector said his résumé is going through "updating and fine-tuning."
Among the superiors affected by Bratton's order are Chief of Department Phillip Banks and First Deputy Commissioner Rafael Pineiro. Both men were top contenders to be Kelly's successor, the Daily News reported. When Kelly first became commissioner he kept then chief of department Joseph Esposito. Kelly's predecessor, Bernard Kerik, chose Esposito. Because of that, Banks' job appears to be safe, the Daily News reported.
NYPD historian Thomas Reppetto said other police chiefs have eliminated high-ranking officials once they started, the Daily News reported. But this time may be different. "Bratton isn't going to do that," Reppetto told the Daily News, "He's probably going to retain many of them, move others around."
