Philadelphia Gets New Police Commissioner
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PHILADELPHIA — Deputy Police Commissioner Willie L. Williams, who will become the first black to hold the department’s top job, pledged Friday to carry on reforms begun by outgoing Commissioner Kevin Tucker.
Williams, 44, will take over next week when Tucker’s resignation becomes effective. “We will have honor and integrity as the cornerstone of our every working hour,” he said at a news conference where Mayor W. Wilson Goode announced his appointment.
Tucker had succeeded Gregore Sambor, who resigned in the wake of the fatal May, 1985, confrontation between police and the radical group MOVE.
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