By Bryan Rourke
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Police Department promoted numerous officers at a ceremony at the Providence Public Safety Complex on Friday.
Maj. Thomas Oates is now deputy chief.
Captains Keith Tucker and Thomas Verdi are now majors.
Lieutenants Michael Correia, Robert Lepre and George Stamatakos are now captains.
Sergeants Kevin Lanni and Joseph Donnelly are now lieutenants.
Detectives Robert Firth, Ernest Forlini and John Muriel, and Officers James Mellor and David Allen, are now sergeants.