File #: Int 0788-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring the NYPD to submit certain information to the City Council and to adhere to certain reporting requirements relating to auxiliary police officers and the auxiliary police program.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 6/12/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to requiring the police department of the city of New York to submit certain information to the City Council and to adhere to certain reporting requirements relating to auxiliary police officers and the auxiliary police program.
Sponsors: David I. Weprin, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Kendall Stewart, Peter F. Vallone, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 6

  Int. No. 788

 

By Council Members Weprin, Fidler, Gentile, Gerson, Stewart and Vallone Jr.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to requiring the police department of the city of New York to submit certain information to the City Council and to adhere to certain reporting requirements relating to auxiliary police officers and the auxiliary police program.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Paragraphs (1) and (3) of subdivision (a) of section 14-150 of the administrative code of the city of New York are  hereby amended, and a new paragraph (8) is added, to read as follows:

§ 14-150.  Police Department Reporting Requirements.

a.  The New York City Police Department shall submit to the city council on a quarterly basis the following materials, data and reports:

                     (1.)                     All academy, in-service, roll-call and other specialized department training materials and amendments thereto distributed to cadets, recruits, officers, auxiliary police officers and other employees of the department, except where disclosure of such material would reveal non-routine investigative techniques or confidential information or where disclosure could compromise the safety of the public or police officers or could otherwise compromise law enforcement investigations or operations.

                     (2.)                     All patrol guide procedures newly promulgated or revised.

                     (3.)                     A report detailing the number of uniformed personnel, auxiliary police officers and civilian personnel assigned to each and every patrol borough and operational bureau performing an enforcement function within the police department, including, but not limited to, each patrol precinct, housing police service area, transit district and patrol borough street crime unit, as well as the narcotics division, fugitive enforcement division and the special operations division, including its subdivisions, but shall not include internal investigative commands and shall not include undercover officers assigned to any command.

                     (8.)                     A report detailing how many auxiliary police officers have been issued personal equipment for the reporting period and to date, including, but not limited to batons, radios, uniforms, bullet proof vests and other protective gear; the number of vehicles assigned to the auxiliary police program for the reporting period and to date, disaggregated by type; the number of auxiliary police officers that received training during the reporting period, including the nature and length of the training.

§ 2. This local law shall take effect sixty days after it shall have become a law.

 

LS # 5054

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