The department had mulled moving its division handling public school safety from a community bureau to the office of Chief of Department John Chell but decided against it after THE CITY reported the proposed switch. This article orginally appeared in The City. By Yoav Gonen The City August 31, 2025 NEW YORK - After considering shifting oversight of school safety agents to the office of Chief of Department John Chell , the NYPD is instead placing the division under the office of first deputy commissioner Tania Kinsella , department officials and a department source said.  The decision was finalized after THE CITY reported last week , based on multiple sources, that the department was moving the agents under Chief of Department John Chell. The school safety division is currently under the Community Affairs Bureau , and the department’s initial plan to move it under Chell — who has been an architec...