Today is Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements last official day on the job. He ends a 37-year career with the police department, the last 11-years as the chief. He is leaving the city in order to oversee community police efforts.
“The Department’s COPS Office is central to our efforts to strengthen the public trust between communities and law enforcement that is essential to public safety, and I am pleased to announce that Chief Hugh Clements, a nearly 40-year veteran of the Providence Police Department, will be serving as its next Director,” said Attorney General Garland. “I am confident that Chief Clements’s leadership will further enable the COPS Office to continue its important work to keep our communities safe and build trust and mutual respect between police and communities, and I look forward to working alongside him. I am deeply grateful to Rob Chapman for his leadership as Acting COPS Director, his contributions to community policing, and his continued service to the Justice Department.”
Clements will go to Washington, D.C., as director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for the U.S. Department of Justice.
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