The city’s inspector general for the NYPD is launching a probe into a recent number of deaths in police custody, a top-ranking department official told a City Council committee Monday.

Michael Gerber, NYPD deputy commissioner of legal matters, announced the investigation during a Sept. 22 meeting of the Council’s Public Safety Committee. The Office of the Inspector General for NYPD will handle the case involving no fewer than nine in-custody deaths that have occurred this year.

Among them were Christopher Nieves, 46, who died in Kings County courthouse after allegedly being denied urgent care, and 29-year-old Musa Cetin, who was found unconscious in a Manhattan police station.

Gerber said the NYPD Force Investigation Division has investigated, or is in the process of investigating, the

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