Cambridge Police Commissioner Branville G. Bard, Jr. is leaving the department for Johns Hopkins University, where he will lead the schoolâs security department as its new vice president for public safety.
Bard will step into his new role at JHU beginning Aug. 30. According to spokesperson Jeremy C. Warnick, CPD Superintendents Leonard DiPietro and Christine Elow will lead the department until an acting police commissioner is chosen.
Bard announced his departure to employees at the Cambridge Police Department on Tuesday in an email later published on the City of Cambridge website.
Bard wrote he was âgratefulâ for the âlifetime relationshipsâ he built at CPD and the departmentâs accomplishments during his four year tenure as commissioner.
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Suffolk sheriff calls for BPD commissioner Dennis White to be reinstated should probe drag on
By Danny McDonald and Andrew Ryan Globe Staff,Updated February 24, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
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Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
Suffolk Countyâs sheriff, who is the head of a local Black law enforcement organization, is calling for Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White to be reinstated if the probe into a 1999 domestic abuse allegation against the cityâs top cop drags on.
âWe believe that Dennis White would be a good leader for the Boston Police Department,â Steven W. Tompkins, Suffolk sheriff and president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives of Massachusetts, told the Globe Tuesday in a phone interview.