New 84th precinct captain welcomed at community council meeting
He’s been the top cop in the 84th precinct for about a month now, but citizens of Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill and Boerum Hill had the chance to welcome Captain Sergio Centa to the area during his first precinct community council meeting on Tuesday.
“I look forward to working in the 84,” Centa told the locals at the meeting. “It’s a great command that has a little bit of everything. I’m excited to be here and I look forward to working not only with the cops but the community going forward.”
Centa is a Bayside, Queens native who went to Francis Lewis High School and majored in communications at the New York Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the police force, he worked at CNN’s New York bureau, where he worked on the technical end of production.
Centa is a 15-year veteran of the NYPD. He joined the force in 1999 and started out at the 1st Precinct in Manhattan. After six years there, he was promoted to sergeant and relocated to the 69th Precinct in Canarsie. Three years later, he became the lieutenant at Transit District 30 in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2011, he became captain and worked at the 84th Precinct for six months before he became the executive officer at the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant.