ok it's my pleasure to introduce to you gary mccarthy the mayor of the city it's go today i'm appointing now brian kilcullen this chief of police for the schenectady police department and his bachelor's degree from c n n his master's in public administration from marist college he  this community for the last nineteen years with the stench and he has a broad based functional naledge of the department in our community he understands the importance of technology in policing he understands the importance of discipline in internal controls within a police department and most importantly he understands the need for a police department in the men and women who comprise the department to be respected and responsive to the needs of this community this is an important position within this city within this community so much focus has been on our police department in recent years some of it of course has not been in the most positive manner hopefully we're beyond that in that we are now setting an agenda in a path of excellen of innovation a path of policing that will establish this department is not only one that is recognized regionally but recognized statewide and nationally and that is the charge that i am giving let me start by thanking everyone for taking time out of their day to come here and share in this occasion it's certainly an exciting day for me and my family and i hope it is for your you and yours as well first i want to express my thanks to you may mccarthy for giving me the opportunity to lead t and men and women of this department and to be part of your management team task continue to move the city forward i look forward to the opportunity to work collaboratively with all city departments to address the issues we're facing we can't arrest our way through some of the issues before us and now more than ever we must work together to continue to move ahead i would like to thank every member of the city council for their support of the police department in their prescience and for some of the challenges we're facing arguably our legislative body has the most difficult task of anyone in the city balancing the demand for a level of service our residents deserve from every department with the unenviable task of finding those services thank you specific specifically for supporting the current police department command staff with the restoration of the resistance he's position thank you commissioner bennett for your support your confidence in my ability your friendship and for sharing with me your vast law enforcement experience there's rarely a situation we face here that you haven't dealt with at one point over the past forty plus years i'm glad i've been able to exploit that and i will continue to do so i'm honored to have my parents here today i saw him a while ago we were typical schenectady family just like many others here today about ten years ago during its annual ceremony the schenectady school district coliseum inducted several athletes into a sports hall of fame a couple of us at the police department were asked to be in attendance at the event because a larger than usual crowd was expected pat riley was being inducted now having been a basketball fan since i was a young young child and a devout los angeles lakers fan i was really excited to be present to hear mr riley speak in a scene inducted but what i really remember from that night were the words of it to tina he was also inducted that night when when asked what sustained him through life he said he lived by this motto work hard do the right thing and everything else will fall into place and without ever using those words that's exactly what my parents instilled in me and that's why i'm here today thank you mom dad for all your support through the years and you're the biggest reason why i have this opportunity responsibility i must take my brother kevin for paving the way for me he was hired as a skanky police officer three years before me and he was still going at living at home with mom and dad and by the time i was hired my parents had seen it all knew what to expect knew what it meant to have a police officer as a son one morning my mother woke up to find a bloody uniform in the bath tub course she thought the worst said her son was a gravely injured during during during the night and she didn't know otherwise until kevin came home are all about being my job easy it at least in that respect now my biggest supporters throughout my career have been my wife and daughter by diana delaney and they've been that they've been the ones i've had to sacrifice the most that i could pursue my career the police department when our daughter was a six months old the olympics which all of us were held in salt lake and my wife was supportive i went to the olympics i worked there as a police officer sick for three weeks while she was home alone with her with our child a young child and on the first christmas our daughter can really appreciate i left the house before she got up having been called to work to a horrific crime scene in woodlawn with multiple homicides of suicide networks department by the time i was able to get home delaney had open all her present her as much as i knew diane knew i wanted to be there to share in that joyous occasion she knew that what it meant to be married to a police officer thank you for your understanding in our support that helped me get to this day i'm proud and honored to have been sworn in today is next she for the police department we are a part made up of many fine men and women many of whom you've never never hear about with our behind the scenes people we couldn't fulfill our mission i think all our civilian support staff our dispatchers for everything they do without any recognition i'm proud to now lead this organization a police organization as i said made up of many fine men and women all of them having made sacrifices similar to those i described a moment ago along with commissioner we will continue to make this department a best it can be the partner norm locally regionally and beyond for his professionalism towards progressive approach to policing and as a department that our residents can be proud of thank you very it my two cents in here while i have the opportunity i met brian when i came here in may of two thousand and seven and based upon my previous life i have a tremendous number of contacts in the law enforcement community many of whom i see either every day or certainly every week and every single one will be glad to support the package with bryan he knows what he's doing he knows everybody in the department knows the city knows the history knows the challenges and he is most certainly up to the task so this is a coming i'm sure brian will be a more than happy to answer the two thousand questions you may have when we get done here but we thank you for being here today and we wish you good day for services in our personal meaning have to work with other agencies within the city like code horsemen to address issues that are creating problems for those in the neighborhoods and that's one of the big things is  some well frequently we we get calls from loud music but what we really want to do is exploit the fact that we're in these places we're in these places ok so our in service training actually we conduct a series of thirty two hours of  instruction over the course of about two months that starts in a few weeks and we're bringing in eric schilling our built the chief building inspector to go through with our officers to kind of p things we can look for again we respond to eighty five thousand calls for service less exploit that and identify issues that hopefully prevent bigger issues down  i will be relocating to schenectady as of today and i will be staying here yes will correct my family will not be relocating so again talk about sacrifices before it's another big zechariah's if they've been willing to make again for me to further my career well again the biggest challenges has really been the resources but we've been able to leverage some of the resource at the state level the federal level that really help us do more with less as i said you know a couple years ago we were budget or hundred sixty six police officers were budget sworn officers or budget one hundred forty five now which is why we're relying heavily on our crime analysis and again the funding was provided through the state  to drugs continue to be it would be a problem and they tend to drive a lot of the other crime we're dealing with some of the robberies burglaries and lot of the car larcen well you know we talked about this in my family and again i got it was best for my family again and i think it's been a compromise i'm my daughter is eleven years old and you know if she had been eighteen and out would be a little bit easier but she's in certain programs that are you know i'm here today for the primaries of course to support brian is that as he takes on his role as chief and i have every confidence that he'll do a great job work with him very closely as an assistant ch take any questions or elaborate on but i do want the public to know that the police department has made significant progress in this case they've done an excellent job i see some of the forensic detectives here today jeremy pace john erickson they were very hard so you would tend to err clifford hear me best here division all steels that lead investigator public should know that all of these detectives have worked around the clock and done significantly good work in this case and i can tell you today the suspect has been again a fight he's in custody on unrelated matters because he has not been charged yet in connection with this case i can't elaborate on it you desiccation will continue and i imagine within a few weeks we'll have something more to say but i did want to report that this time i just like to leave you with one sure thing about two and a half three months ago a gentleman called the police department because he was having difficulty with a teenage child his who was suffering from a psychological problem and he explained his frustration to the two patrol officers that responded and resolved that that night and said he had been unable to find any resource that he could use to deal with his son's problem and try and address it in a better fashion for not on his son's sake but the family say the police sauced one of the police officers went back to the station got on the computer came up with the help group that's warrants that particular diagnosis drove back to the house provided the father with all the information where he could seek help to deal with this problem that he experienced with his son he wrote to the schenectady good said a letter to the editor in the very end of his statement he made this what i think is very prophetic statement this is not your father's police department anymore and that could not have been said more accurately thank you very much