HOUSTON (WBAP/KLIF) – Houston’s police chief is leaving the city to become the chief of the Miami, Florida police department. Art Acevedo formally accepted the Miami job Monday morning, saying “it’s the right thing for me to do, and the right time to do it.”
Acevedo sent an email to his staff late Sunday calling the move “truly bittersweet.” He spent five years as chief in Houston, overseeing a 5,400-person force. The Miami police force is much smaller, with a staff of 1,400.
Acevedo says for him Miami is going home. He emigrated to the United States from Cuba with his family in 1968.