New York City Police Commissioner

The New York City Police Commissioner is the head of the governing body of the New York City Police Department. The commissioner is appointed by the mayor, and serves at the mayor's pleasure. The commissioner is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department as well as the appointment of deputies including the Chief of Department and subordinate officers. Commissioners are civilian administrators, and they and their subordinate deputies are civilians under an oath of office, not sworn members of the force. This is a separate position from the Chief of Department, who is the senior sworn uniformed member of the force.
Theodore Roosevelt, in one of his final acts as Governor of New York before becoming Vice President of the United States in March 1901, continued reforms he began when he was police superintendent by signing legislation that replaced the police commission and office of the police chief (previously the superintendent) with a single police commissioner.
The current police commissioner is Dermot F. Shea, who had previously been Chief of Detectives. Shea was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio on November 4, 2019 and took office on December 1 upon the retirement of James P. O'Neill, who left for a job in the private sector. The longest-serving commissioner was Raymond W. Kelly who served for 13 years in two separate appointments (1992–1994, 2002–2013), under mayors David Dinkins and Michael Bloomberg, respectively.
List of superintendents, chiefs, and commissioners.
Pre-1901.
Prior to 1901, the New York City Police Department was run by a board of four to six commissioners. The following is a list of some of the most famous members of the Police Commission:
Post-1901.
Since 1901, a single commissioner has been in charge of the New York Police Department. The following is a list of the commissioners:
In popular culture.
In the police procedural television show "Blue Bloods", the fictional New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan is played by Tom Selleck. His father, Henry Reagan, is also a former Commissioner.
Salary.
The public disclosure of salary as of 2020 is approximately $205,180.00 base, this is considered in line with what most large US cities pay their respective chief of police, and a bit lower then that of the chief of the Los Angeles, CA chief. 