New Head of Philadelphia Police
Mayor W. Wilson Goode today named deputy commissioner Willie Williams as the city’s new police commissioner, putting him in charge of a department still recovering from corruption investigations and a confrontation with a radical group.
Williams, the first black to lead the 6,700 member department, will replace Kevin Tucker, who resigned last week after 2 1/2 years on the job. Tucker succeeded Gregore Sambor, who resigned after a fatal May, 1985, confrontation between police and MOVE in which the radical group’s building was bombed by a police helicopter. The bombing sparked a fire that destroyed dozens of houses.
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