Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Has Full Confidence In City Manager To Handle Police Chief Controversy

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Mayor Francis Suarez played an important relation successful the hiring of Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo.

In caller weeks, however, helium has shied distant from speaking publically astir the contention involving the main and the commissioners.

On Tuesday, Suarez released a connection connected the situation.

“Like I said yesterday successful a connection I released, I person afloat religion and assurance successful the City Manager’s quality to negociate the concern successful a mode that is champion for the nationalist information for my residents and for a collegial situation successful the city,” helium told CBS4’s Peter D’Oench connected Wednesday.

D’oench past asked Suarez if helium has assurance successful Chief Acevedo astatine this point.

“I person assurance successful my City Manager’s quality to negociate the situation,” Suarez replied.

The 57-year-old Acevedo was the taxable of 2 stormy meetings astatine City Hall past week. He was criticized for a remark helium made astir the constabulary section being tally by the “Cuban mafia,” that helium had demoted respective constabulary officers and supervisors and that helium had done a arguable Elvis Presley impersonation during a fundraiser.

Last Friday, City Commissioner Joe Carollo said helium had heard that Acevedo was readying to person him and 2 different commissioners arrested for retaliation. The City Manager Arthur Noriega said that was not going to happen.

Noriega sent Acevedo a memo requesting that helium taxable an enactment program for constabulary reforms, his imaginativeness for the absorption of the department, ways to amended serviceman morale, his interactions with the media and nationalist relations, and however helium would repair relations with elected officials.

In his report, Acevedo called for reducing weapon unit by 7 percent by focusing connected 5 neighborhoods with the astir weapon crimes. He said different focuses would see cracking down connected amerciable liquor sales, homelessness issues, improving constabulary morale with an worker survey, strengthening peculiar operations, and improving ties with commissioners implicit 90 days.

Suarez applauded the plan.

“I deliberation the enactment study is precisely what we request to bash successful the City of Miami. We request to trim weapon violence. We person reduced our execution complaint this year. In my 4 years arsenic politician person reduced homicides 3 retired of the 4 years and that’s my extremity connected yearly basis. That’s thing the constabulary section needs to execute each year,” helium said.

In effect to queries astir Acevedo and the friction that has arisen, Noriega issued a connection which said, “While the caller issues surrounding Chief Acevedo’s tenure with the City person played retired precise publicly, this is present a unit substance betwixt an idiosyncratic worker and the City. As such, I volition not beryllium making immoderate further remark regarding the matter.”

While Suarez did talk straight astir Acevedo, helium did accidental helium had afloat religion successful his metropolis manager who prosecute Acevedo from Houston.

Acevedo, who has been connected the occupation for six months, said he’s been ordered not to remark connected the matter.

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The contented could aboveground erstwhile again astatine the metropolis committee gathering adjacent week.