The Office of Inspector General for the New York Police Department was created over the veto of a mayor, in the face of stiff opposition from a police commissioner and in the heat of a mayoral campaign marked by pitched criticism of police policy.

But no such acrimony is likely to meet the man tapped to fill that oversight role, Philip K. Eure.

Even before he was offered the job, Mr. Eure, whose appointment was announced on Friday, met with the current police commissioner, William J. Bratton, for an hour, in which they talked about their shared roots in Boston and friends they had in common. He also received a stamp of approval from Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose criticism of the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics were central to his mayoral campaign.

In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Eure said that he expected to work in concert with the Police Department to make changes where needed.

“We should be on the same side of the fence; we shouldn’t be at odds with each other,” he said. But, he added, “We’re going to go wherever the facts lead.”