(Photo of Jason Lando Courtesy of Justin Guido/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Jason Lando was sworn in as the new chief of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police in the Steel City on Friday. Lando is a Pittsburgh native who was unanimously approved to be appointed for this position on February 4th, 2026 by the Pittsburgh City Council after spending over twenty-one years as a commander with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Lando also attended the Tree of Life Synagogue when he was growing up and directed operations there during the worst anti-semitic shooting in United States history on October 27th, 2018.