Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey recently met privately with Chicago’s Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, sources tell NBC Chicago.
Word got out two weeks ago that Ramsey is considering taking the position of police commissioner in the windy city, but this is the first time a meeting between Ramsey and Emanuel has been reported.
According to NBC Chicago’s Ward Room, the two men met somewhere other than Chicago and discussed the reality of Ramsey taking the top-cop position in the city where he began as a cadet and served on the Chicago Police force for 27 years.
Ramsey told associates two weeks ago that he would “love to come home to run the Chicago Police Department,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Sixty-three-year-old Ramsey is the former head of Chicago’s community policing program, but left to work as the police chief in Washington D.C. in1998, until he took the commissioner’s position in Philadelphia in 2008.
Emanuel plans to encourage Ramsey and his other candidates for the position to submit applications to the Police Board by its April 11 deadline, reports the Chicago Tribune.
But two weeks ago, a source close to Ramsey told the Sun-Times that Ramsey probably won’t apply for the job unless Emanuel can assure him it’s his.
