Long Beach Assistant Chief Wally Hebeish now top cop in city

Long Beach

Assistant Police Chief Wally Heibeish was announced arsenic the caller main of the Long Beach Police Department Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 22.

Hebeish follows Robert Luna, who announced his status successful September earlier saying earlier this period that helium was moving for Los Angeles County Sheriff. Hebeish has been Luna’s adjunct main since 2019.

Top connected his database of qualifications is being the constituent idiosyncratic successful instauration of the LBPD’s Office of Constitutional Policing to rethink accepted policing, usher organizational advancement and instrumentality goals to enactment the City’s Framework for Reconciliation. That, successful turn, was the City Council’s effect to unit connected Memorial Day 2020 aft the execution of George Floyd and a telephone for equity from the Black community.

“Chief Hebeish possesses a thorough knowing of captious issues and priorities presently affecting our Long Beach community,” City Manager Tom Modica said successful a statement. “He continues to pb and animate our constabulary section unit and has been instrumental successful implementing programs and initiatives that summation nationalist spot surrounding equity and law policing, amended worker wellness, and code transgression successful our community.”

Hebeish has been a constabulary serviceman for 27 years — 26 years for the LBPD. He started his vocation successful the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. He has a Master’s grade successful connection from Southern New Hampshire University, and has served successful astir of the LBPD bid positions.

The metropolis conducted a rigorous nationalist search, Modica said, informed by a survey of Long Beach residents asking what qualifications they wanted to spot successful the adjacent constabulary chief.

“I’ve worked intimately with Wally Hebeish since becoming Mayor,” Robert Garcia said successful a release. “He is perfectly the close idiosyncratic to pb our constabulary section moving forward. He’s a antheral of unthinkable integrity and has the respect of our officers.

“I’m grateful for his committedness to Long Beach and the historical barriers he’s breaking for Muslim Americans,” helium added.

Hebeish volition go main connected Jan. 1, 2022. He volition pb much than 800 sworn officers successful a section with much than 1,200 employees.