Deputy Chief Sean Case will lead the Anchorage Police Department beginning July 1. Outgoing Chief Bianca Cross has had the role since April.
Deputy Chief Sean Case at his office at the Anchorage Police Department’s downtown headquarters in 2022. “With the significant public safety challenges Anchorage is facing right now, we need a police chief with extensive APD leadership experience,” LaFrance said in a statement. “Deputy Chief Case not only brings that experience, but also deep understanding of policing policies that will make all Anchorage residents safer.
Their resumes and career trajectories have parallels, though Cross is actually the more experienced of the two in law enforcement with 26 years; Case has 23. However, Case hadBianca Cross talks with reporters about becoming the new chief of the Anchorage Police Department in April. Then-Chief Michael Kerle, left, retired at the end of the month.
LaFrance said she met with Cross several times for the transition. She expressed gratitude for Cross’s years of exemplary police work. Transition team spokesperson Ira Slomski-Pritz said LaFrance hopes to see Cross continue in a leadership role in the department, and that conversation is ongoing.In her statement, LaFrance said her team had a lot of work to do from restaffing the police department “to addressing violent crime and deepening community trust.
“That work includes a responsibility to establish much deeper partnerships with the BIPOC community, to listen, and to take actions that demonstrate a commitment to safety, healing, and justice,” she said. LaFrance’s statement highlights Case’s work at APD on criminal and mental health diversion programs, starting a team that pairs social workers and police officers together to respond to residents in mental health crises, and recruitment and retention efforts. Body of missing Ketchikan woman found
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