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Charlie Beck has been part of the Los Angeles Police Department for more than 40 years and has run it for the last eight. His father was a Los Angeles cop; two of his children are, too.

“It is my DNA,” Chief Beck said in a phone interview on Monday. “I was formed by this organization.”

Now, though, he says it’s time to step aside. This month, Chief Beck announced he would retire. His last day will be June 27 — his 65th birthday.

“It’s the right time for the city,” he said, noting that Los Angeles’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, and the current members of its police commission and City Council are the “right people” to pick his successor “in the right time of their careers to do it.”