State Police Superintendent: “I Have Never Heard Of A Rogue Unit”
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- May
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State Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt was sworn into office this morning by Gov. David Paterson at a ceremony at State Police headquarters in Albany.
Corbitt also made a dozen promotions during the event, including naming Pedro Perez as the first Hispanic first deputy superintendent. Corbitt himself is the first African-American State Police superintendent (his predecessor Preston Felton is also African-American, but he was interim superintendent.)
Aftewards, Corbitt took questions from reporters about the ongoing investigation by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo about whether there has been a “rogue unit” within the State Police conducting political attacks on state leaders.
“During my tenure in the State Police I have never heard of a rogue unit, never received any information and I talked to several superintendents and they have shared the same opinion,” he said.
Corbitt, who joined the department in 1978, continued, “I don’t believe there’s a rogue unit, but that’s what investigations do. They uncover the truth. So I’m going to leave that to the AG’s report.”
Corbitt, 60, said his office has conducted an internal review of police policies and procedures and will release the findings this week.
He also addressed the recent unrelated suicides of two State Police officials, saying “Whenever we lose a person in the State Police, everyone grieves. But we’re also an agency that’s used to catastrophic events and we recover.”
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
