Daily News | Albert L. DiGiacomo, chief detective, police captain, and college professor, has died at 73
Albert L. DiGiacomo, 73, of Phoenixville, retired chief detective for Chester County, former captain of the Philadelphia Police Department’s South Detective Division, and professor of criminal justice at West Chester University, died Thursday, Feb. 23, of cancer at his home.
Energetic, personable, and articulate, he also taught criminal justice classes full-time at West Chester and other colleges beginning in 2009. “He always took a genuine interest in our students and helped many launch their criminal justice careers,” a college colleague said in anAt first, Capt. DiGiacomo walked a beat and worked with German Shepherds in the Police Department’s K-9 unit.
“I won’t compromise when it comes to our core values of integrity, competence and compassion,” he said in 2001. Protective by nature, he kept an eye on his three sisters and escorted one of them down the aisle at her wedding after their father died. They described him as “dependable, the voice of reason, deeply caring, disciplined, and highly intelligent.”
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