Crime & Safety
New Salem Police Chief To Be Publicly Sworn In On Tuesday
Lucas Miller, a former New York City detective, was named to lead the department last month.
SALEM, MA — Lucas Miller will be publicly sworn in as the new Salem Chief of Police on Tuesday.
The 10 a.m. ceremony will be held by invitation only and streamed online here, broadcast on Salem Access TV and on the SATV YouTube channel. A community meet-and-greet will then be held at the corner of Essex Street and New Liberty Street from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Miller, a detective lieutenant in the NYPD since 2017 and member of the NYPD FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, replaces Acting Chief Dennis King, who last week was named the new police chief in Marblehead.
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Miller was selected as Salem's new chief last month.
Miller spent the past 16 years as an NYPD supervisor and has ties to Massachusetts dating back to when he started his career in the Wellfleet Police Department in 1991.
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Miller served as a homicide supervisor, patrol supervisor, narcotics and community policing officer. He also taught counterterrorism for the NYPD Police Department.
Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll said Miller excelled in the assessment portion of the evaluation and that she received positive feedback on him from community stakeholders and past coworkers. He was chosen out of a pool of four finalists.
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(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)
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