Daily News | Philadelphia may create a new, high-level position to coordinate its crime and safety response
Philadelphia police patrol near a crime scene in December. The city may change how it coordinates its public-safety response by creating a public safety director.Philadelphia may change how the city coordinates its public-safety response by establishing a new, high-level position in city government that would oversee the police, fire, prisons, and emergency services departments.
The director would be among the top four administrative positions in city government, alongside the mayor, managing director, and finance director. A handful of other cities, including Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, have similar director-level positions in city government that oversee the city’s public-safety response. In Newark, the director of public safety position was created in 2016 and oversees the Police Department, the Fire Department, and the Office of Emergency Management.
“In those other cities, they simply got along, they simply coordinated, they simply used resources in a cohesive way to attack a problem,” Jones said. “The next mayor has to elevate that on the priority of things to do so that it is impactful.”
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