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GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The Greenburgh Police Department met 133 standards to become re-accredited as a recognized agency by the New York State Law Enforcement Accreditation Council, Police Chief Joseph J. DeCarlo announced Friday.
Accreditation is a way of helping police agencies evaluate and improve their overall performance and provides formal recognition that an organization meets or exceeds general expectations of quality in the field, according the state's criminal justice services.
Accreditation acknowledges "the implementation of policies that are conceptually sound and operationally effective," according to the state.
The Greenburgh Police Department was first accredited in 2003 and again in 2008, DeCarlo said. The latest accreditation, which will also last five years, was approved Thursday, he said.
DeCarlo said accreditation helps promote increased cooperation and coordination between law enforcement agencies. It also helps departments use personnel and equipment more efficiently.
The Accreditation Program is comprised of 133 standards, DeCarlo said. Standards include such topics as agency organization, fiscal management, personnel practices, training, high-speed pursuits, roadblocks, patrol and records.
"Because of our size and the number of specialized units employed, we were required to meet each of the program’s 133 standards," DeCarlo said in a statement. "The onsite assessor expressed particular satisfaction with the level of job knowledge expressed by the personnel he interviewed and observed."
Comments (4)
With the constant burglaries being committed in Edgemont, increased drug trafficking, gangs in the Town, shootings on the increase, thefts (TYCC) and more, I am relieved that we have an accredited police department who can be reactive to these events, the genesis of police work. Try to be more proactive. The police department is made up of good, honest, hard-working cops. Stop tying their hands and let the do their jobs. Accreditation is like a sunny day and work, nice to have a sunny day when you walk out the door, but you still have to go to work. So go to work.
sent to the media too late to stop the flow of all the news the town wants residents to see in an unquestioned format.
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Dear Chief de Carlo:
(and to reporters who would be quick to lap this good news up without question)
Not so fast that you didn't expect anyone to notice that complying with certifiable requirements is hardly something to be congratulated for when there is a not so exceptional history to ignore: what about all those years when the Department operated without accreditation?
By your own acknowledgement, the requirements were established and operational by 1989 and Greenburgh was not to comply with these standards until 2003 or 13 years after the standards were formalized. For a town celebrating its 225th anniversary and having some form of police department in existence for many of these years; its failure to oversee a Department that failed to meet peer group standards even before codification in 1989 and then not for 13 years thereafter is surely nothing to brag about.
A time period running parallel to Mr. Feiner and his Town Boards sharing the responsibilities of Constable of Police.
I also feel compelled to remind you of standard #4 (below): to promote public confidence
Hard to do when the theft of 19 laptops from the Theodore Community Center remains unsolved and likely now a cold case; a few years back a puzzling coincidence of stamped time cards affirming work performed simultaneously at two distant and unrelated employments -- again the TDYCC being at the heart of the matter and again no action taken.
Of course, hats off to you for maintaining the easy to celebrate high standards maintained since you assumed stewardship.
Hal Samis
Of all things to complain about, you're complaining about whatever happened in the 90s? Let's at least keep it to the last decade buddy.
-Forward thinker
"I also feel compelled to remind you of standard #4 (below): to promote public confidence
Hard to do when the theft of 19 laptops from the Theodore Community Center remains unsolved and likely now a cold case; a few years back a puzzling coincidence of stamped time cards affirming work performed simultaneously at two distant and unrelated employments -- again the TDYCC being at the heart of the matter and again no action taken."
July 2011, theft of 19 laptops, security camera tape erased...current enough>