The NYPD Inspector General’s responsibilities include investigations, reviews and audits of systemic NYPD issues, resulting in recommendations to improve the NYPD’s policies, programs, practices, and operations – with the goal of enhancing the department’s effectiveness, improving public safety and protecting the rights of all New Yorkers. Similar to other inspectors general for New York City agencies, the NYPD Inspector General is situated within New York City’s Department of Investigations (DOI).
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A new report by a police watchdog group is calling on the NYPD’s new inspector general to open investigations into police policies and practices that they consider to be “problematic.”
Posted on June 15, 2014
The NYPD Inspector General’s responsibilities include investigations, reviews and audits of systemic NYPD issues, resulting in recommendations to improve the NYPD’s policies, programs, practices, and operations – with the goal of enhancing the department’s effectiveness, improving public safety and protecting the rights of all New Yorkers.
This report outlines CPR’s recommendations for nine areas that the NYPD Inspector General should consider for investigation, review, study and audit, in order to issue findings and recommendations that will improve public safety and protect the rights of all New Yorkers. The first six represent areas that should be considered priorities in the first year of the Inspector General’s tenure.
Este reporte delinea las recomendaciones de CPR en nueve áreas que el Inspector General del NYPD debe considerar para su investigación, revisión, estudio y auditoría, con el objetivo de resolver descubrimientos y recomendaciones en cuanto a asuntos que mejorarán la seguridad pública y protegerán los derechos de todos/as los/as neoyorquinos/as. Las primeras seis representan áreas que deben ser consideradas como prioridades para la agenda de trabajo del primer año del Inspector General.
NEW YORK — The FBI has one. The CIA does, too. So do 30 city agencies. But the New York Police Department, which has over 34,000 officers and vast intelligence operations working to keep the biggest city in the country safe, does not have an inspector general.