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a short time ago I accepted the resignation of the NYPD commissioner Edward caban he concluded that this is the best decision at this time I respect his decision and I wish him well commissioner kaban dedicated his life to making our city safer and we saw a dropping crime for 13 of the 14 months he served as commissioner in his time as part of the NYPD during our Administration we removed more than 18,000 illegal guns off our streets had the lowest number of robberies in recorded history in the month of October and our subway system and throughout the entire last few months and just at the lowest number of shootings above ground ever in the history of recorded history in this city in August to ensure crime keeps going down in our city today I'm taking immediate action and appointing Tom donin as interim Police Commissioner Tom is an experienced law enforcement professional who has worked at the local state federal and international levels he served as New York's director of The Office of Homeland Security ran the FBI's National threat Center and the FBI in n ypd joint terrorist task force and worked as the Cold Case agent investigating the 1993 Twin Towers bombing as well as the attacks in US embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen by Al alqaeda he is also a bronx native