LAPD’s Miller Accepts FBI Post

Los Angeles Police Department counterterrorism chief John Miller is leaving to take the post of assistant director for public affairs at the FBI, department officials said Tuesday.

Miller had been in negotiations with the bureau for several weeks, but the announcement Tuesday was the first to confirm the move. In his new job, which he will start next month, Miller will be the voice of the FBI, a role similar to the one he played at the New York Police Department under then-Commissioner William J. Bratton in the mid-1990s.

Miller, who for the last three years oversaw the LAPD’s homeland security and critical incident management operations, said he was looking forward to moving to Washington, D.C. But, he said, it will be difficult to leave before many of the projects he initiated at the department come to fruition.

“It’s been an honor to work with such a great team,” Miller, 47, said Tuesday. “It gave me a terrific opportunity to work from a blank canvas in creating a counterterrorism bureau and implementing Chief Bratton’s vision.”