CFD veteran picked to lead new Public Safety Administration

A longtime employee of the city’s emergency service departments has been appointed to lead a newly created public safety office.

Annastasia M. Walker will serve as executive director of the city’s Office of Public Safety Administration, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced late last week. Walker will be tasked with overseeing “efforts to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and improve administrative functions” across the city’s police and fire departments, as well as the Office of Emergency Management and Communications.

The new office will merge the administrative functions of the city’s three public safety departments and will share headquarters with the CPD and CFD in Bronzeville. The office’s creation was announced last October.