Raymond W. Kelly
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Raymond W. Kelly is the current NYPD Commissioner under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He is the first person to hold the post for a second, separate tenure. Commissioner Kelly spent 31 years in the NYPD, serving in 25 different commands and as Police Commissioner from 1992-1994. He is the only person to date to hold every rank in the NYPD.
Kelly was formerly the Senior Managing Director, Global Corporate Security, at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Prior to that, he served as Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service, where he managed the agency's 20,000 employees and $20 billion in annual revenue.
From 1996-1998, Kelly was Under Secretary for Enforcement at the United States Department of the Treasury. At that post he supervised the Department's enforcement bureaus, including the U.S. Customs Service, the United States Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Raymond W. Kelly served on the executive committee and was elected Vice President for the Americas of Interpol from 1996-2000. He served previously as Director of the International Police Monitors in Haiti, a U.S. led force responsible for ending human rights abuses and establishing an interim police force there.
Raymond W. Kelly is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He retired as a Colonel from the Marine Corps Reserves after 30 years of service.