NYPD makes history with first Latino commissioner

Edward Caban, a Bronx native of Puerto Rican heritage with more than 30 years with the New York Police Department, was sworn in Monday as commissioner, the first Latino to lead the nation’s largest police department.

“Not only has Commissioner Caban climbed the ranks, serving in nearly every role within the police department, but policing is in his blood, as he follows in the footsteps of his father, another veteran of the NYPD,” Mayor Eric Adams, a former officer himself, said after he administered the oath of office in front of the Bronx stationhouse where Caban began his career.