ASSISTANT CHIEFS TO BE SWORN IN TUESDAY (7/31/2006) NEW HAVEN – Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. will swear in two new assistant chiefs for the New Haven Police Department Tuesday afternoon. The ceremony will take place at 4:45 p.m. at City Hall, 165 Church Street. The appointments of Lieutenant Herman Badger and Lieutenant Stephanie Redding are expected to be approved Monday by the members of the Board of Police Commissioners. Badger most recently was officer-in-charge of the Investigative Services Division. ISD is comprised of 71 staff members and most major crimes, such as murder, robbery, burglary, arson and larceny, are investigated by the detectives in this division. Badger began his career with the NHPD in 1984 as a patrol officer and worked as a district manager and the officer-in-charge of the Family Services Division prior to his transfer to Investigative Services. He has attended the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia and Yale University’s Management Training Institute. Redding began her career with the NHPD in 1986 as a patrol officer and member of the mounted unit and currently serves as officer-in-charge of the Family Services Division, which is made up of Juvenile Services, Missing Persons, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Bias Crime Unit, School Resource Officers, Truancy Prevention, and other youth-related activities such as the Police Athletic League, Board of Young Adult Police Commissioners, Mentoring Program, Evening Coverage, and Safe Corridors. She previously was assigned to the Patrol Division as second in command and also worked as a district manager in the East Shore/Morris Cove policing district. Redding has attended the Police Executive Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute for Police and is a senior fellow of the Yale University’s Child Development-Community Policing program.