Sentences with phrase «new police officers»

The cuts, combined with $ 11 million from the city's reserves, will allow the city to set aside funds for hiring new police officers and firefighters.

The Nassau Interim Finance Authority, or NIFA, approved the $ 2.9 billion budget after legislators eliminated the deficit by cutting bus service, trimming general expenses and delaying the hiring of new police officers.

Monies were also designated for purchasing bottled water for firefighters and for hiring new police officers as well as firefighters.

The village board of trustees hired Stith and nine other new police officers on June 6.

«The City Council is disappointed that the Executive Budget does not contain funding for new Police Officers who will help give Commissioner Bratton the tools he needs to continue to keep crime low while also improving police - community relations.

A spokeswoman for Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said the Coincil was «disappointed that the executive budget does not contain funding for new police officers who will help give Commissioner Bratton the tools he needs to continue to keep crime low while also improving police - community relations.»

It comes after Ms Abbott faced strong criticism over an interview in which she failed to properly cost a Labour pledge to provide 10,000 new police officers if elected.

«As I have said many times in the past, we need new police officers,» Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid-Island) said in a statement on Sunday.

NYPD Headcount For a second straight year Mayor de Blasio declined to include money in his budget to hire 1,000 new police officers per the Council's request, led by Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

That will do nothing to alleviate the issues that are being discussed here in May of 2014,» Mr. Bratton told the City Council in May about new police officers.

Southold Town Board members hired eight new police officers Tuesday night, just minutes after passing a $ 40.9 million spending plan for 2015 and almost two weeks after entering into a new contract with the police union.

Jeremy Corbyn has defended the shadow home secretary after she appeared to suggest that the 10,000 new police officers Labour has pledged if it gained power at the General Election would be paid # 30 per year.

The commissioner, who will receive 1,300 new police officers under the city's budget deal, said the community policing model that will be enacted as a result «will change many aspects of how cops and community interact — and thereby address many of the concerns that underlie the bills we're considering today.»

«I stand by the Council's budget position of last year that additional new police officers are needed on our streets,» Rose said in a statement.

I have become a MPTC Instructor and have placed an emphasis on training and mentoring new Police Officers and sharing skills and techniques, to make a more professional police profession.

Local news reporters highlighted how Bratton seemed to be turning on the Council after they supported his ultimately successful push to fund the hiring of new police officers — even giving him 300 more than he asked for.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York City is set to hire nearly 1,300 new police officers as part of its yearly budget agreement, Mayor Bill de Blasio said late Monday.

Either number, Mr. de Blasio's office said, would threaten the city's ability to build affordable housing or put 2,000 new police officers on the street.

He is widely viewed as having caved on hiring new police officers in the city budget and did not accomplish much of his agenda in Albany.

«We also feel it is critical that we explore ways to improve core services by hiring new police officers to replace the many veteran officers soon to retire and to implement the community policing initiatives this administration is planning to undertake,» they said.

She also suggested that 10,000 new police officers would be paid # 30 - per - year if Labour gain power after the General Election.

The mayor didn't include funding for 1,000 new police officers, or plans to provide free lunch to all city school students, in his executive budget - two of the biggest initiatives in the City Council's response to his preliminary budget plan.

Typically, Mr. de Blasio has rushed to defend the police commissioner; recently, Mr. Bratton said he wanted to destroy the Times Square pedestrian plaza before the mayor had articulated an opinion, and broke with Mr. de Blasio earlier this year over the hiring of 1,000 new police officers.

To improve the city's safety and protect against terror threats, all the candidates called for either an influx of new police officers to bolster the force or at the very least an end to the cuts that have slashed the number of officers patrolling the city over the past 12 years.

Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, also declined to say if the city would hire 1,000 new police officers, a top priority for the City Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Since taking office in 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has added more than 25,000 employees to the city payroll and spending has increased nearly 20 percent, including $ 300 million a year for universal pre-K and $ 75 million for 1,300 new police officers.

The speaker and Mayor Bill de Blasio have been allies over the last year, though he has sometimes shunned her proposals for the city's budget — including her request last year to add 1,000 new police officers to the NYPD's ranks.

The city of Syracuse has sworn in 34 new police officers.

The negotiations preceding the agreement lacked the drama of the past two years, when the City Council was pushing for the big - ticket addition of 1,000 new police officers — something they accomplished last June.

NEW YORK CITY — The NYPD will get 1,300 new police officers and the city's libraries will all be open six days a week under a $ 78.5 billion budget deal announced at CIty Hall by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito Monday night.

Its «dossier» says the party has added up the spending commitments made by Labour since 2015, from scrapping the benefits cap to supporting the introduction of 10,000 new police officers.

The city has hired 25 to 30 new police officers this year, and the budget will add an additional class of officers.

During the two and a half hour hearing Bratton also explained that he wants to hire more than 1,000 new police officers and spend up to $ 30 million in overtime costs to retrain officers and supervisors on how to verbally and physical engage suspects.

Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed to hire 1,300 new police officers as part of a budget agreement for fiscal year 2016, he announced alongside members of the City Council in a late - night press conference on Monday evening.

The new police officers were the biggest win for Ms. Mark - Viverito, who first asked for 1,000 new cops last year only to see Mr. de Blasio shut down her request.

No new cops or firefighters: Miner last year included money in the budget for 32 new police officers and about two dozen new firefighters, after both departments shrank following years of no hiring.

The mayor also has proposed hiring 25 new police officers and 25 new firefighters.

Last year, the City Council asked for 1,000 new police officers to increase the number of bodies on the street.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito shook hands tonight on a $ 78.5 billion city budget deal that includes the overwhelming majority of the priorities the Council had pushed — including 1,300 new police officers, money to keep libraries open 6 days a week, and increased funding for senior citizens and veterans.

Despite looming threats of federal cuts, de Blasio insisted that wasn't a problem — pointing to reserves and asking if he ought to take back 2,000 new police officers, universal pre-K or other investments.

In addition to calling for 1,000 new police officers to focus on community policing, Mark Viverito also called for police to issue more summonses and desk appearance tickets in lieu of arrests for low - level offenses and announced plans to revitalize the Human Rights Commission and create a new Office of the Civil Justice Coordinator to make sure New Yorkers can obtain representation in civil cases.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has prided himself on ending the «budget dance,» but at least one back - and - forth has carried over from last year: The City Council is yet again urging Mayor Bill de Blasio to add funding for 1,000 new police officers to his preliminary budget.

Under de Blasio, the two most high - profile broad personnel increases have been the addition of hundreds of new pre-kindergarten teachers and the addition of about 1,300 new police officers, staffing the expansion of de Blasio's universal pre-K program and his neighborhood policing model, respectively.

Then Mayor Dinkins and Council Speaker Vallone fought for and won funding to hire thousands of new police officers.

My car failed its MOT this week, but luckily it'll cost about the same as 10 of Diane Abbott's new police officers to get fixed.

The deal struck with the council, led by Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat and mayoral ally, avoids any city worker layoffs or tax hikes and increases spending to schools and social services but does not include the council recommendation to hire 1,000 new police officers.