Commanding Officer Valdez Leaving Sheepshead Bay’s Station House To Head Up Troubled Bronx Precinct

The 61st Precinct’s commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Carlos Valdez, is leaving Sheepshead Bay to lead a Bronx station house where officers were caught under-reporting criminal complaints to show a drop in crime, the New York Post reports.

On Friday, the NYPD announced that 19 officers at the Bronx’s 40th Precinct would face disciplinary action for incorrectly classifying crimes. The precinct’s former commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Lorenzo Johnson, has been transferred out of the precinct, the outlet reports.

Valdez moves to the Bronx station house on Wednesday, July 22, when Captain Winston Faison takes over as the new commanding officer of the 61st, according to the precinct’s Office of Community Affairs.

Faison comes to the local station house after serving as executive officer of the 60th Precinct for two years, the NYPD tells us. Before that, he was the executive officer at the 61st for about 11 months.

Faison is the fourth commanding officer at the 61st Precinct in the last three years. Deputy Inspector Valdez was appointed the precinct’s top officer in July of last year.

UPDATE 1:30pm: According to the 61st Precinct’s Office of Community Affairs, Faison joined the NYPD in September, 2000. He was promoted to sergeant in 2005, lieutenant in 2009, and captain in 2013. He has previously worked at the following precincts: the 71st, the 72nd, the 88th, the 61st, and the 60th. He also served in two housing patrol bureaus: the 7th and the 3rd.