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SEPTA Police Chief Retires as Transit Agency Faces Increase in Crime, Violence

SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel III.
Emma Lee
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WHYY
SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel III.

SEPTA's police chief has decided to retire. WHYY's Tom MacDonald reports a nationwide search will soon be underway for his replacement.

(Original air-date: 7/9/22)

WHYY reporter Tom MacDonald is a lifelong Philadelphia-area resident who has worked in the region since the mid-1980s. Tom started in commercial radio covering the MOVE standoff with police for WFIL-AM. He was also City Hall Bureau Chief, covering government and politics for more than a decade, for WWDB-FM.