Mayor Adams was on hand as NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch named Chell the highest ranking uniformed officer in the department.

John Chell has been tapped to permanently replace Jeffrey Maddrey as the NYPD’s chief of department after an explosive sex scandal led to Maddrey’s resignation. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch

New York City Police Department Chief Jeffrey Maddrey resigned on Dec. 20 after an employee, Lt. Quathisha Epps, accused him of sexual misconduct, including coercing her into ‘performing unwanted sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities.

Lambrou, speaking to reporters at his Manhattan law office, said that the 33-year NYPD veteran's relationship with Lt. Quathisha Epps lasted only a “short time.” The lawyer said Maddrey had no authority to sign off on overtime pay.

The NYPD’s Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey resigned late Friday night, sources tell PIX11 News. NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced John Chell as the interim Chief of Department and Philip Rivera as interim Chief of Patrol,

Former New York City Police Department chief Jeffrey Maddrey and his attorney held a press conference Friday for the first time since he resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations.Maddrey, once the department's highest ranking uniformed officer,

Disgraced former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey shrugged off the sex-abuse accusations filed against him as an “office fling” — as aftershocks from bombshell allegations that he swapped overtime for sex continue to rattle the upper levels of the department,

The lawyer for Jeffrey Maddrey, the former top-ranking NYPD chief who stepped down amid charges that he coerced sex from a subordinate in exchange for $200,000 in overtime, acknowledged an affair with the accuser on Friday but said she had pursued him with racy texts,

Investigators were on a top floor of NYPD headquarters last week searching for evidence in the tawdry sex-for-overtime abuse scandal exposed by The Post, sources said.