NYPD top cop Jessica Tisch names chief of staff — loyal aide held same title at Sanitation Department

New Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has made her archetypal unit move, naming a longtime adjutant arsenic her main of staff.

Ryan Merola had been astatine the Department of Sanitation arsenic a lawman commissioner and main of unit for Tisch, who served arsenic sanitation commissioner for much than 2 years.

Before that, Merola was Tisch’s main of unit erstwhile she ran the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and the NYPD’s Department of Information Technology. He joined the NYPD successful 2015 arsenic a probe specializer for its Intelligence Bureau.

“I person seen firsthand his crisp instincts, his committedness to work and his dedication to this city,” Tisch said of Merola connected Wednesday astatine a promotion ceremonial astatine the Police Academy. “He’s ever risen to conscionable immoderate situation and present his enactment volition payment each New Yorkers.”

The determination is 1 of astatine slightest respective that Tisch, who was sworn successful arsenic the city’s apical cop connected Monday, is expected to marque successful the coming weeks.

Her predecessor, Thomas Donlon, who was appointed successful December arsenic interim NYPD commissioner, was progressive successful a nationalist enactment astatine the New York City Marathon with his acting main of staff, Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard. It is not wide if Sheppard, who has since returned to his relation arsenic lawman commissioner for nationalist information, volition enactment connected successful that position.