The Metropolitan Council has named a veteran New York City police officer as chief of the Metro Transit Police Department. Ernest Morales III was named to the post Thursday following a national ...

Ernest Morales III, a former officer from New York, will be the next Metro Transit Police Chief, the department announced Thursday in a press release. Morales III will officially begin Feb. 27.

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Ernest Morales III, who currently serves as first deputy police commissioner in Mount Vernon, N.Y., will take the helm of the Metro Transit Police Department on Feb. 27 as its new chief.