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Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker appoints Adam N. Geer to be Philly’s first public safety director

Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker also announced that deputy fire commissioner Craig Murphy will serve as the department's acting commissioner.

In this 2020 file photo, Adam Geer, then an Assistant District Attorney in the Homicide Unit and Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the District Attorney's Office, speaks about recent violent incidents affecting Black transgender women. Geer was named the city's first chief public safety director.
In this 2020 file photo, Adam Geer, then an Assistant District Attorney in the Homicide Unit and Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the District Attorney's Office, speaks about recent violent incidents affecting Black transgender women. Geer was named the city's first chief public safety director.Read moreJose F. Moreno / File Photograph