Working alongside Mayor Bill de Blasio was one of the “great honors” of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton’s life, according to the outgoing police boss, whose letter of resignation was released Friday.
“As I tender this resignation I also tender my thanks,” Bratton, 68, wrote in the letter, dated Sept. 14.
“From equipment, to training, to technology, to policy, to the first substantive headcount expansion in more than a decade, you have stood by the NYPD and made much of what we have accomplished possible.”
The top cop’s retirement will go into effect midnight Sunday. He led the department for the past two-and-a-half years, his second stint as the NYPD’s top boss.