Raymond Kelly
Former NYPD Commissioner
Raymond Walter Kelly was the longest serving Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the first person to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures.
Kelly has spent 47 years in the NYPD, serving in 25 different commands and as Police Commissioner from 1992 to 1994 and 2002–2013. He was promoted directly from Two-Star Chief to First Deputy Commissioner in 1990. After his handling of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, he was mentioned for the first time as a possible candidate for FBI Director. After Kelly turned down the position, Louis Freeh was appointed.
Kelly spoke at The Common Good in 2009: Lunch and Discussion with: NY Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Read more:
Stephen Rex Brown, ‘Ex-NYPD top cop Ray Kelly vouches for former jail union boss Norman Seabrook before sentencing’, NY Daily News, 6 February 2019
Max Jaeger, ‘Ray Kelly shows support for active-shooter drills after Pittsburgh massacre’, NY Post, 28 October 2018
Julia Limitone, ‘North Korea, Russia, China and Iran not the only cyber threat: Fmr. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly’, Fox Business, 6 July 2017
Daniel Prendergast, ‘Ray Kelly: Attacks in Europe are the “new normal” now’, New York Post, 25 June 2017
