Newly minted NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has appointed a longtime ally to be her right hand staffer — making him the department’s highest-ranking openly gay officer. Ryan Merola was sworn ...

Tisch named Delaney Kempner as the new Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, replacing controversial top spokesman Tarik Sheppard.

Ryan, a 45-year veteran who previously served as lieutenant task force commander with the JTTF in New York, said that the NYPD and the Port Authority Police Department, as well as other local ...