(ISSUED IN ‘1971’)
(aka “before my time”)
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*official name* –>
“the “‘city’ of ‘new york’ ‘police department'”
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(largest police force in the ‘united states’)
main phone # –>
(646)610-5000
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(established in ‘1845’, the ‘agency’ has ‘primary responsibilities’ in ‘law enforcement’ and ‘investigation’ within the 5 boroughs of ‘new york city’)
(the ‘NYPD’ is one of the oldest ‘police departments’ established in the ‘united states’, tracing its roots back to the ‘1800s’)
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(the ‘NYPD’ has a broad array of ‘specialized services’, including…)
’emergency service unit’
‘K9’
‘harbor patrol’
‘air support’
‘bomb disposal’
‘counter-terrorism’
‘criminal intelligence’
‘anti-gang’ / ‘anti-organized crime’
‘narcotics’
‘public transportation’
‘public housing’
(the ‘new york city transit police’ + ‘new york city housing authority police department’ were fully integrated into the ‘NYPD’ in ‘1995’)
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(according to the ‘department’, its mission is to…)
‘enforce the laws’
‘preserve the peace’
‘reduce fear’
‘provide for a ‘safe environment”
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(the department’s ‘regulations’ are compiled in ‘title 38’ of the “new york city tules”)
(in ‘june 2004’, there were about ‘40,000 sworn officers’ plus ‘several thousand civilian employees’)
(in ‘june 2005’, the # of ‘officers’ dropped to ‘35,000’)
(as of ‘december 2011’, that figure increased slightly to over ‘36,600’, helped by the graduation of a class of ‘1,500’ from the ‘new york city police academy’)
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(the NYPD’s ‘current authorized uniformed strength’ is ‘37,000’)
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(there are also approximately…)
4,500 ‘auxiliary police officers’
5,000 ‘school safety agents’
2,300 ‘traffic enforcement agents’
370 ‘traffic enforcement supervisors’
(….currently employed by the ‘department’)
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(the “patrolmen’s benevolent association” of the “‘city of new york’ NYC PBA'” (the largest ‘municipal police union’ in the ‘united states’), represents over 50,000 ‘active’ and ‘retired’ NYC police officers)
(the “NYPD intelligence division & counter-terrorism bureau” has ‘officers’ stationed in ’11 cities’ internationally)
(in the ‘1990s’, the department developed a compstat system of management which has also since been established in other cities)
(the NYPD is headquartered at ‘1 police plaza, located on ‘park row’ in ‘lower manhattan’ across the street from ‘city hall’)
(the NYPD has extensive ‘crime scene investigation’ + ‘laboratory’ resources, as well as units which assist with ‘computer crime investigations’)
(the NYPD runs a “real time crime center”, essentially a large ‘search engine’ and ‘data warehouse’ operated by ‘detectives’ to assist ‘officers’ in the field with their ‘investigations’)
(a “domain awareness system”, a ‘joint project’ of ‘microsoft’ and the ‘NYPD’, links ‘6,000 closed-circuit television cameras’, ‘license plate readers’, and other ‘surveillance devices’ into an ‘integrated system’)
(due to its ‘high-profile location’ in the largest ‘city’ + ‘media center’ in the ‘united states’, ‘fictionalized versions’ of the ‘NYPD’ and its ‘officers’ have frequently been portrayed in ‘novels’, ‘radio’, ‘television’, ‘motion pictures’, and ‘video games’)
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