Q&A
Collaboration with postal services and challenges in standardizing fraud reporting
1:56:21
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Commanding Officer Spiro Papavlasopoulos addresses Council Member Zhuang's questions about collaboration with postal services and explains why creating a standardized document for fraud reporting is challenging.
- The NYPD does work with the United States Postal Office
- Papavlasopoulos explains that creating a standardized document for all types of scams could be counterproductive
- He emphasizes that each case is unique and requires different documentation
- The goal is to encourage victims to report crimes without feeling overwhelmed by document requirements
Susan Zhuang
1:56:21
Like, do you guys work with, like, UPS, USPS?
Spiro Papavlasopoulos
1:56:26
Yes.
1:56:27
Yes.
1:56:27
We do.
1:56:28
We we work the United States Postal Office.
1:56:30
And and to help answer your question, originally, when you said Is there a document that we could provide as a police department to help some of our older adults?
1:56:40
We we've discussed maybe not even a fraction of a different type of scams that we're seeing to try to put that all on a page.
1:56:48
I think we would be it it would cause more damage than good.
1:56:54
You would probably have people not showing up to the precincts because they don't have all their documentation.
1:56:58
And that's not what we want.
1:57:00
We want them to come in as is, and depending on the crimes that we're seeing, as to come in, that that complaint will then be assigned to a detective.
1:57:10
And that detective is gonna help coordinate with that victim on the specific needs that they need for that specific investigation.
1:57:18
No one crime is the same.
1:57:20
No one in said is the same.
1:57:23
There's different variables to these crimes.
1:57:25
And to put that all on this sheet would make things not pleasant for the actual victim who's already going through a lot of hardship.
1:57:34
Can you imagine now trying to gather some of this information on their own after
