Boston Police Commissioner William Evans is retiring from the department and will take a new job with Boston College’s police force, a spokesperson for Mayor Marty Walsh says.
A 10:30 a.m. press conference is scheduled Monday morning at City Hall.
The South Boston native joined the city’s police force in 1982, and he has served as commissioner for the last four years. The late Boston Mayor Thomas Menino appointed Evans as interim police commissioner in November 2013; Walsh appointed him commissioner the following January.
In 2013, Evans ran the Boston Marathon and, alongside then-Commissioner Ed Davis, commanded department officers as police incident commander at the scene of the bombings, and later during the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers and Watertown shootout. He has since led the force’s upping of security for each of the storied annual marathon’s subsequent races. This year, he completed his 20th run of the Boston Marathon.
