Colon, a 15-year New Haven Police Department (NHPD) veteran, was sworn in as the city's third assistant police chief in a ceremony on Friday, the New Haven Independent newspaper reported.
The ceremony marked 'another glass ceiling being broken,' Board of Police Commissioners Chair Evelise Ribeiro said, noting that Colon, a native of Mumbai, is the department's second-ever female assistant chief of colour and its first Indian assistant chief, the report said. Colon thanked her colleagues, family and friends in Friday's ceremony and said, "With great power comes great responsibility and ever greater accountability."
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