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Kenney chooses Ross as his police commissioner

Call it Ramsey 2.0: The Philadelphia Police Department will have new but familiar leadership come January. First Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross, whom Mayor-elect Jim Kenney announced Wednesday as his choice to lead the department of more than 6,600 officers, said he planned to keep doing what retiring Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey has done - "and then some."

Richard Ross, first deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, answers reporters' questions after Mayor-elect Jim Kenney (right) announced that Ross would be his choice to replace retiring Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey when his administration takes over City Hall in January.
Richard Ross, first deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, answers reporters' questions after Mayor-elect Jim Kenney (right) announced that Ross would be his choice to replace retiring Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey when his administration takes over City Hall in January.Read more(CLEM MURRAY / Staff Photographer)
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