The New York City Department of Sanitation Police is the law enforcement arm of the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY), primarily responsible for regulating, enforcing and investigating sanitation-related offenses within the City of New York.
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Overview
Numbering approximately 130 Members which include, Police Officers, Lieutenants, Inspectors and Chiefs, the Sanitation Police is composed of Sanitation Workers, Supervisors, Superintendents and Chiefs who have volunteered to undertake law enforcement duties. Sanitation Police Members retain their original civil service title depending on there rank while assigned to the unit.
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Training and Typical Equipment
Sanitation Police recruits are required by the New York State Municipal Police Training Council to undergo and pass a four month training course before they become Sanitation Police Officers. The training given in this course includes training in penal law, police science, discipline, powers of a peace officer, radio use, defensive tactics, unarmed and armed self-defense, physical training, chemical training, handcuffing techniques, and arrest procedures just to name a few general topics.
Upon successfully graduating the academy graduates are granted New York State Peace Officer status. Sanitation Police Officers are equipped with firearms, handcuffs, pepper spray, expandable ASP baton, radios and other related law enforcement/public safety equipment. Once assigned officers undergo on-the-job field training with experienced personnel before being issued permanent assignments.
All Members also undergo biannual training to re-qualify on equipment and get refreshed on changes to laws and other Department procedures.
Sanitation Police Officers are New York State Peace Officers as per the Section 2.10 sub 59 of the New York State Criminal Procedure Law which gives the Members powers to make arrests, use physical and deadly physical force and take appropriate police action.
Sanitation Police Officers generally enforce sanitation laws and strive to improve the quality of life for NYC residents. Quality of life enforcement focuses on littering, public urinating, failure to remove canine waste, improper disposal of solid waste, and illegal dumping just to name a few.
Other enforcement operations include enforcing theft of recycling laws, regulating and enforcing private transfer stations with in the city, and the transportation of waste with in the city.
Sanitation Police Officers can also issue various summons which include Environmental Control Board summonses, parking summonses, NYS vehicle and traffic law summonses and NYC Criminal Court summonses.
Operations
Working both in uniform and in plainclothes, Sanitation Police Officers have responsibilities ranging from summonsing residents for mixing recyclable and non-recyclable trash to investigating the illegal dumping of refuse, commercial and toxic waste. One notable example occurred in 1996, when Environmental Enforcement Officers assisted the New York City Police Department with investigating the death of a sanitation worker who was killed when he was struck in the face by deadly hydrofluoric acid that was mixed with ordinary garbage. The suspect was arrested by detectives from the New York City Police Department for aggravated manslaughter.
Divisions
There are a number of divisions within the Sanitation Police, with each division handling different law enforcement functions:
- The Citywide Illegal Dumping Task Force headed by Inspector Paul Mazzilli
- The Environmental Enforcement Unit - Assigned to the enforcement of the illegal transportation, removal, and disposal of asbestos, low-level radioactive, medical and hazardous waste.
- Permit and Inspection Unit - Handles enforcement of NYC Rules and Regulations of permitted transfer stations, the detection and closure of illegal transfer stations, as well as seizing and impounding the equipment of such unlawful activity, and citywide private carter truck enforcement.
NYC Sanitation also has workers assigned to the New York City Business Integrity Commission and the New York City Office of Emergency Management.
See also
- New York City Department of Sanitation
- List of law enforcement agencies in New York
- Law enforcement in New York City
References
External links
- CBS 2 NY NYC Sanitation Police On The Prowl
- CBS 2 NY Tracking Trash For Signs Of Something Sinister
- The Race To Decontaminate Ebola In NYC
- New York City Department of Sanitation site
- Police Sifting Beach For Medical Waste
- Hot Items for Thieves: Recyclables
- Finding the Scary in the Merely Messy; First Warning of Mass Threat May Come From Garbage Police
- KINGS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHARLES J. HYNES ANNOUNCES ARREST OF BUSINESSMAN ILLEGALLY OPERATING A DUMPING GROUND ON PUBLICLY OWNED LAND
- City Gets Tough On Land Grabber
- TURN IN DUMPERS FOR CASH City offers bounties up to 1OG Catch an illegal dumper in the act - and get half the fine the city wins
- DUMPERS PAY THRU THE NOSE
- DUMPERS TRASH BORO, POLS TOLD
- PEOPLE, & C., RESPONDENT, v. TYRONE POWELL, APPELLANT FOR 2nd Degree Murder for DUMPING DEAD GIRLFRIEND IN A BARREL IN A MANHATTAN LOT.
- NYC BUSINESS INTEGRITY COMMISSION ANNOUNCES THE ARRESTS OF TWO FOR THE THEFT OF A COMPETITOR'S CONTAINER
- Stealing From The City Gets Your Vehicle Impounded
- Increased Fines For Theft of NYC Metal!
- Sanitation Police Online Video
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