Rev. to run city cop review bd.

THE CITY’s independent police watchdog group has a new chairman.

Citing his “heart for public service” and “commitment to justice,” Mayor de Blasio appointed the Rev. Frederick Davie as the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s new chairman Wednesday during the agency’s Faith and Community Leader Breakfast at St. Paul’s Chapel in lower Manhattan.

Davie, 62, has been the board’s acting chairman since December.

Besides leading the nation’s largest civilian police oversight organization, Davie (right) is executive vice president of Union Theological Seminary and is a member of the Mayor’s Clergy Advisory Council.

He also served on former President Barack Obama’s transition team and was appointed to the White House Council of FaithBased and Neighborhood Partnerships, according to his biography.

“I think that a faith leader as head of the CCRB sends a very powerful message,” de Blasio said. Davie has been a member of the CCRB since 2016.

As acting chairman, he oversaw the Board’s decision to prioritize investigating sexual assault allegations made against police officers.

Davie, who moved to New York City in 1989 and was a member of a transition committee for David Dinkins after he was elected mayor that year, said he was honored with the appointment. “Had anyone told me as a boy that one day the mayor would appoint me chair of the nation’s largest civilian police oversight entity, it would have all seemed fantastical, just a little too far-fetched,” Davie said. “But then again, sometimes — when you have faith in the idea that you were put on this planet for a purpose — the way finds you.”