Jessica M. Taylor will take over the agency next month.
A former Secret Service agent and top Environmental Protection Agency investigator has been named the new chief of the U.S. Park Police, putting an outsider in charge of the agency for the first time in recent years.Jessica M. Taylor, 47, is the director of the EPA’s criminal investigations division, where she has worked for the past six years, managing a team of 200 staff members and investigators enforcing federal statutes such as the Clean Air Act. She will replace former chief Pamela A.
Flynn, the Park Service’s associate director of visitor and resource protection, who also oversees the Park Service’s law enforcement programs, including the Park Police. The Park Service declined to make Taylor available for an interview.
Kenneth Spencer, the chairman of the Park Police officers union, said he knew nothing about Taylor and had not heard from her. A Park Police commander supported by the union was bypassed by Flynn.
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