Sentences with phrase «police administration for»

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The Obama administration Justice Department, for instance, has opened 23 investigations of law enforcement agencies, including police departments in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri, for unconstitutional practices and has reached court - enforceable consent decrees with many of them.

Lawmakers and advocates expressed concern Friday that Sessions could sideline or undo the Obama administration's civil rights efforts, which have included investigations of police departments for unconstitutional practices and lawsuits meant to protect the rights of transgender individuals and black voters.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

For the first time in Ghana's history, a maritime police unit was set up under the Mahama administration and equipped with modern boats to police the country's territorial waters

US Senate candidate Wendy Long today announced her support for the Bloomberg administration's «Stop & Frisk» policy while denouncing the judicial overreach and political interference in police work that threaten to put more New Yorkers in danger.

There would, however, be a separate bill in which Cuomo seeks an agreement to allow some police officers, firefighters and members of the New York City Employees» Retirement System, which includes corrections officers, to qualify for enhanced accidental disability pension benefits, according to an anonymous administration official who spoke to the New York Times.

Police - reform advocates slammed the de Blasio administration for waiting until the last minute before adding controversial police reform bills to a public hearing hosted by the Police - reform advocates slammed the de Blasio administration for waiting until the last minute before adding controversial police reform bills to a public hearing hosted by the police reform bills to a public hearing hosted by the mayor.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has advocated for «a version» of broken windows policing, saying the term got a bad rap under previous administrations but that it is right in principle.

The SUNY New Paltz chief of police and a spokesperson for SUNY central administration did not respond to requests for comment.

Speaking at Lagos House in Ikeja while handing over the generating sets to the police, the Governor reiterated the commitment of his administration to ensure the enforcement of rule of law and safety of lives and property in the State, just as he said that his vision was for the State to be among the safest places to live and work in Africa.

Soares, as you'll recall, issued two separate Troopergate reports, neither of which recommended any criminal charges for key players in the scandal — although the second suggested former Gov. Eliot Spitzer had perhaps been «not truthful» about his role in the failed plot by his administration to use the State Police to discredit his then - political nemesis, ex-Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

Meanwhile, the police officers» union is hitting de Blasio and his administration from the other side for not protecting officers.

However, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the Police Administration, Supt. Cephas Arthur has described the alleged statement by the legislator as unfortunate and uncalled for.

«The administration continues to work to enact the database and intends to brief its legislative partners when the system is ready, but the legal responsibility for the implementation decision lies solely with the Superintendent of State Police.»

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night that the de Blasio administration will likely expand the size of the police force in exchange for capping overtime for officers.

Bratton continued to oversee the drop in stop and frisks that started during the Bloomberg administration and also agreed to other changes such as reducing marijuana arrests and giving police the discretion to arrest people for other minor offenses such as public drinking and public urination.

«It's disappointing that after receiving preferential treatment from the City, James Blake appears to be giving cover to the de Blasio administration for its complete lack of police accountability and transparency instead of supporting the demands of our families and communities for an end to police abuses against us,» they said in a joint statement.

Walsh said his administration is also trying to get public input on the search for a new police chief.

The police department's press office for decades shared such information willingly, but the administration's lawyers have decided an obscure section of New York State's 1976 Civil Rights Law makes those revelations improper and illegal — or, in de Blasio's phrase today, «a bureacratic error.»

Governor Wike had recently blamed the current economic recession in the country for his administration's failure to live up to expectation and the INEC and Police for the misfortunes of PDP in the elections of the state.

According to the police administration, contrary to reports that it has granted permission for a group of Ghanaians to picket at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, the Public Relations Officer of the Greater Accra Polpolice administration, contrary to reports that it has granted permission for a group of Ghanaians to picket at the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, the Public Relations Officer of the Greater Accra PolicePolice...

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Funding for the vests comes as tensions between police and the de Blasio administration have begun to ease.

de Blasio also indirectly rebutted critics, offering praise for police while emphasizing the crime reductions in 2014 under his administration.

I thank Sheriff Howard and state police for their efforts to ensure residents receive even faster response times and for their partnership with my administration in making the closest car concept a reality in Erie County.

In addition, the de Blasio administration and NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton have drawn criticism for the «broken windows» policing strategy in which minor offenses are aggressively targeted.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito have vowed to defy incoming administration's agenda, but have failed to answer how they will compensate for the potential loss of federal funds for police, hospitals and public housing — which city Comptroller Scott Stringer warned last week makes up $ 7 billion of the city's yearly finances.

One day after Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his support for a New York Police Department review of the department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to intervene.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg broadened his challenge to city workers» unions Wednesday when his administration proposed eliminating an annual $ 12,000 bonus for current police and fire retirees and workers as part of an overall plan to create a new tier of less generous benefits for future workers.

That includes the elimination of 6,166 teaching positions and 350 civilian police positions as well as the layoff of 118 administrative and support staff at the Administration for Children's Services and 129 at the Department of Finance.

Also at the event were former mayor David Dinkins; Ray Kelly, who was police commissioner for all 12 years of the Bloomberg administration and for the final year of the Dinkins administration; Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association; state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito; city Comptroller Scott Stringer; and Public Advocate Letitia James.

The monarch also sounded a note of warning to persons of questionable character lurking in the state that «their time is up» and urged them to «turn a new leaf and be reintegrated into the society, or face the fury of the law because it is clear that there is no place for criminals in Lagos State with the recent empowerment of Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies in the state with helicopters, flying boats, motorbikes and cars by this administration».

In June 2015, as part of negotiations for the Fiscal Year 2016 Adopted Budget, the de Blasio Administration and the City Council agreed to significant new police hiring and an overtime cap for the NYPD.9 At that time the cap was set at $ 513 million in fiscal year 2016 and $ 453 million in fiscal year 2017 and beyond.10 However, as one factor in determining the cost of uniformed overtime is the salary of employees, the City has increased the cap to reflect collective bargaining wage increases.

The Interior Ministry together with the Ghana Police Administration launched investigations into the matter and mounted an intensive search for the culprits.

The Inspector - General of Police (IGP) David Asante - Apeatu who received the donation on behalf of the Police administration expressed the Service's appreciation to Mr Tang Hong for his kind gesture.

«For avoidance of doubt, since the inception of the present Police administration in July 2016, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, he has introduced and implemented diverse internal reforms aimed at improving capacity building and efficient service delivery of the personnel of the Force, which is yielding positive results in the standardisation of the capability of the Nigeria Police Force to deal with violent crimes and terrorism throughout the country.

In a highly unusual move, the administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone last week placed newspaper want ads for a new deputy police commissioner even though Bellone announced his choice for the job three months ago.

The mayor visited two Queens churches today to tout what he said were improvements his administration had made on snow removal, policing and other services for those communities, and making no reference to his campaign finance scandal.

Mr. de Blasio and his Police Commissioner Bill Bratton ripped into the tabloid today for telling «flat - out lies,» targeting a spate of recent stories which claimed bad blood between Mr. Bratton and a top department official led to the official's abrupt departure and that Mr. de Blasio's wife, a key member of his administration, never wanted Mr. Bratton as the city's top cop.

He would not comment on his colleagues» absence from the rally but said it was a «sad day» for an administration and a Council that had run on police reform platforms.

In three cases, according to the lawsuit, Success Academy threatened to call either the police or Administration for Children's Services to take the children from the school, while in the fourth case, a student was actually handed over to the police and taken to a hospital during a class trip.

And Monifa Bandele, spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform, expressed concerns about the fact that Danner is the seventh New Yorker considered emotionally disturbed to die in the NYPD's hands either due to use of force or in police custody during the current administrPolice Reform, expressed concerns about the fact that Danner is the seventh New Yorker considered emotionally disturbed to die in the NYPD's hands either due to use of force or in police custody during the current administrpolice custody during the current administration.

As he walked down the halls of the hospital, where police turned their backs to him, he must have had some idea of the tension that would follow, deepening the chasm between his administration and the police officers who work for him even as he spoke of a need for unity.

The others: Gerard Kropf, a retired deputy superintendent of the state police; Bart Johnson, a retired state police colonel now working as the security director for the Transportation Security Administration in Upstate New York; David Krause, a state police major; and Christopher Reidy, an investigator with the state Attorney General's Office.

The best way to maintain public confidence in the administration and the police department is for the district attorney to take over this probe to determine whether there are any credible allegations.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will retire from his post leading the NYPD in September, leaving policing at a time when the field he revolutionized is at the center of a roiling national debate and marking the biggest departure yet for the de Blasio Administration.

As Indy gets ready to hit another record murder rate for the second year in a row, the Hogsett administration is promising more police and...

This past Fri., Feb. 4th, the de Blasio administration has announced that it would invest $ 7.3 million to upgrade 13,000 bulletproof vests for the officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD).

Government has revealed that the money saved from renegotiating the contract for the purchase of some cars for use by the Presidency under the previous administration, was used to procure a hundred cars for the Police Service.

New York police officials have released a sketch of a man who they say is being sought for questioning in connection with the shooting of a Cuomo administration lawyer in Brooklyn early on Monday.