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Cindy
Creamer is new police chief 
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by Eric Bond
Capt. Cynthia A. Creamer, a 25-veteran of the
Takoma Park Police Department, was appointed its Chief of
Police on July 23.
Creamer, the department's first female sergeant and lieutenant,
will now lead the 41-officer department. "I'm very excited
about the promotion of Capt. Creamer," said City Manager Rick
Finn. "I am confident she will provide excellent leadership
to the Department. She is an example of someone who started
as a dispatcher, and with skill and effort, rose to the level
of Chief. That speaks well of her and the City."
Creamer, 44, joined the Department in 1976 as a communications
dispatcher, attending the Western Maryland Police Academy
in Hagerstown and becoming an officer in 1978. Since August
2001, she has commanded the Operations Division, or uniformed
patrol officers. She previously led a community policing unit
and, for six years, the criminal investigations division.
She earned Officer of the Year 1980 in patrol and the same
award in 1990 for criminal investigations.
Among other commendations, she was the Department's first
"Supervisor of the Year."
Chief Creamer, a Maryland native, succeeds Chief Tom Anderson
who resigned in mid July, for personal reasons, after leading
the department for five years.
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