SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — As one of many acts on the path to office as Sharen Owens awaits her inauguration as Syracuse’s next mayor, the mayor-elect, appointed the city’s deputy police chief, Mark Rusin, to the role of the police chief.
The current chief, Joe Cecile, plans to retire on Jan. 14 of next year.
At 42, Rusin would be the youngest person to lead the police department in over a century. A close second would be Patrick Murphy, who at 43 became Syracuse’s reform police chief in 1962 as the city reckoned with a corruption scandal.
As the deputy chief, Rusin currently oversees the Uniform Bureau, a team of 265 officers and 50 civilian employees who provide direct police services to the public. This includes street patrol, responding to emergencies, and the community engagement strategy the department implemented last year…