His responsibilities include overseeing the athletic department and supervising all the coaches.

The suit asks the court to impose a series of reforms on the police and to appoint a federal monitor to oversee the department.

The state labor commissioner, an elected official, oversees the department.

She will oversee the the largest department in state government with about 18,000 employees.

Others said they hoped the final report would call for an independent monitor to oversee the entire department.

They have agreed to an outside monitor to oversee the department, an arrangement that may also restore public confidence.

The civilians who oversee the department also made their support clear.

The Police Commission, which oversees the department, called an emergency meeting late today and heard the views of a capacity audience.

Before that, as a Senate aide, he specialized in helping oversee the department.

"It was unfair and archaic to ask one man to oversee the entire department."