Menino picks Lowell chief for Hub commish
By Michele McPhee and O’Ryan Johnson
Sunday, October 22, 2006 - Updated: 10:50 PM EST
Lowell Police Chief Edward Davis will be Boston’s new police commissioner, the Herald has learned.
The longtime Spindle City chief and former narcotics officer met with Mayor Thomas M. Menino today and agreed to accept the job, sources told the Herald. A formal announcement is expected tomorrow.
Davis is expected to take the reins in Boston in December.
A Menino administration official called Davis last night and asked him to come to Boston, where Davis met with Menino and was offered the job, a source said.
Davis, 50, was selected because of his strength in community policing and building relationships in the neighborhoods, a source said.
He’s been chief in Lowell for 12 years. Before that, he was a Lowell cop for 16 years, and commanded the department’s narcotics squad.
Davis was a finalist for the Boston commissioner job in the last search in 2004, when Kathleen O’Toole was selected. O’Toole left in July, after a tumultuous two-year tenure, to take a job as the chief inspector of Ireland’s national police.
Davis is coming in at a time when Boston’s violent crime has skyrocketed to highs not seen in a decade, and manpower is at the lowest it has been in 10 years. In 2000, the FBI announced that crime in Lowell from 1994-1999 dropped more than in any other American city with a population more than 100,000.
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