File #: Int 1467-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring increased domestic violence prevention unit officer availability.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 11/12/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring increased domestic violence prevention unit officer availability
Sponsors: Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require each police precinct and police service area to have domestic violence prevention unit officers available to respond to domestic violence-related calls twenty-four hours a day.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1467, 2. Int. No. 1467, 3. Memorandum in Support, 4. November 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1467

 

By Council Member Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring increased domestic violence prevention unit officer availability

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of Title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-192.1 to read as follows:

§ 14-192.1 Response to domestic violence calls. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Domestic violence. The term “domestic violence” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision a of section 14-192.

Domestic violence unit officer. The term “domestic violence unit officer” means any officer specifically trained to respond to domestic violence calls, or that has expertise in addressing domestic violence, and who is assigned to the domestic violence office of a precinct or police service area if such an office is present.

Family offense. The term “family offense” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision a of section 14-192.

b. Availability requirement. The commissioner shall require each precinct and police service area to have a domestic violence unit officer available to respond to calls related to domestic violence or family offenses at every hour of each day.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

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