Edward Caban has resigned as commissioner of the NYPD, Mayor Eric Adams announced at a press briefing Thursday.
“A short time ago, I accepted the resgination of Edward Caban. I concluded that this is the best decision at this time,” Adams said. “I respect his decision and I wish him well.”
The news of Caban’s resignation comes after sources told NY1 last Thursday that federal investigators visited his house and took his phones, and seized electronic devices from several other NYPD executives.
In a letter provided by sources to NY1, Caban wrote that “news around recent developments has created a distraction for our department, and I am unwilling to let my attention be on anything other than our important work, or the safety of the men and women of the NYPD.”
“Which is why – for the good of this city and this department – I have made the difficult decision to resign as Police Commissioner,” the letter goes on to read.
Two other top Adams administration officials had raids executed on their homes last week, according to sources.
At the news conference, Adams said he had named Tom Donlon, a retired FBI official, as the interim police commissioner. Donlon previously served as the chief of the FBI’s National Threat Center and once led the Office of Homeland Security in New York, before starting his own security firm in 2020.