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YPD SHIELD is an umbrella program
for a series of current and future Po-
lice Department initiatives that per-
tain to private sector security and counter-
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he Police Department is probably one New York State is around ten percent larger some $3.7 billion and made some 350,000 terrorism. This is a public private partnership
of the best known in the world given than the landmass of the United Kingdom arrests in 2005. One of the biggest non-po- based on information sharing. NYPD SHIELD
the profusion of television series and with a population of around 18 million (one licing tasks of the NYPD is to manage its is a central destination for private sector se-
films immortalising the NYPD and its police third the UK) of which some 8 million reside fleet of some 7,500 vehicles. The fleet rang- curity managers to obtain information and
officers – Television show such as Kojak, in the five boroughs of New York City. The es from battery powered scooters through engage Police Department resources.
Cagney & Lacey, NYPD Blue, Law and Order, state includes mountainous terrain of the patrol cars, SUV’s and helicopters.
life on Mars amongst others. Hollywood Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, long is- For further details concerning the work of the
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movies such as Fort Apache: The Bronx, land facing the Atlantic, the Great Lakes and ntil recently, the New York Police New York Police Department please visit their
Shaft, The French Connection starring Gene an international border with Canada – offer- Department possessed six helicop- website at www.nyc.gov/nypd
Hackman and alternatively, later chapter of ing just about every kind of terrain for law ters: two Bell 412s, three JetRangers,
the Godfather movies captured the criminal enforcement officials to grapple with. and one LongRanger. A seventh was added
underworld of the City on celluloid. The NYPD today has an operating budget of on 22 October 2003. A $9.8 million “state of