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The Chicago Police Department on Friday announced the promotion of a longtime department supervisor to oversee the detectives who investigate the most serious crimes in the city’s downtown area and across the North Side.

James Labbe, who joined CPD in 2001, is the new commander of Area 3 detectives, where he most recently served as lieutenant of property crimes. Before that, he was a supervisor in CPD’s Englewood District (7th) on the South Side, the department said in a release. Labbe is an active member of the U.S. Coast Guard reserve and a former U.S. Army reservist.

Labbe’s promotion comes five months after the retirement of the previous Area 3 commander, Rodney Hill.

In the interim , though, detectives on the North Side were overseen b

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