Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker also announced that deputy fire commissioner Craig Murphy will serve as the department's acting commissioner.
Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker also announced that deputy fire commissioner Craig Murphy will serve as the department's acting commissioner.
Currently, Mayor Jim Kenney’s public safety response is coordinated by outgoing Managing Director Tumar Alexander and his top deputies who work closely with police leadership. Former Mayor Michael A. Nutter had a deputy mayor who oversaw public safety issues and reported directly to him. “The last couple of years, I’ve been trying to do exactly what this position describes,” Geer said. “That is pull together city agencies, pull together community leaders, pull together anyone and everyone.”He also worked two stints in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, as a prosecutor between 2007 and 2011, then again from 2015 to 2021. Under District Attorney Larry Krasner, Geer worked in the municipal court unit and then as a homicide prosecutor.
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