Q&A
NYPD discusses interagency collaboration and partnerships to combat elder fraud
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NYPD officials detail their collaborations with various entities to combat elder fraud and related crimes, in response to questions from Council Member Chris Banks.
- Partnerships include major banks, focusing on ATM scams and financial fraud prevention
- Collaborations with businesses like Starbucks, McDonald's, and Dunkin' Donuts to engage with older adults
- Crime Prevention Officers use a 'softer' approach in these establishments to interact with seniors
- Investigative partnerships include Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the United States Attorney's Office
- Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez mentions efforts for federal legislation to allow banks to restore scammed money, similar to credit card protections
Chris Banks
2:02:32
Okay.
2:02:33
When it comes to into agency collaboration, what are the who are the outside partners that you're working with?
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Are you working with the banks?
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Who are the outside partners that you're working with?
Spiro Papavlasopoulos
2:02:46
We could go on a on a list on this.
2:02:48
But yes.
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So let's take ATM scams, for example.
2:02:52
We actually held a a security briefing with the top executives from every single major bank in the actual city here at one police plaza.
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That's from Citizens Bank, Chase Bank.
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These were the head of security representatives from their establishments discussing specific ATM scams and crime related financial scams on what we could do to prevent certain things that we're seeing on the actual ground level and what they could do to help us, specifically with the ATMs that we've seen a couple of these scams, and I think the chief could actually elaborate a little bit more on how the scammers were switching debit card between perpetrators.
2:03:37
That's just one of the scammed as far as the other type of collaborations that we've had as far as, like, Starbucks, McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts.
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We they they have actually opened the doors for us to actually go in there and engage some of these older adults at specific times in the day.
2:03:55
Usually, we see older adults early morning at certain of these locations where the establishment now does not have a problem with a light blue police officer shirt coming into that precinct into into that establishment sitting down.
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You have to remember certain establishments.
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We don't wanna present that there is police presence where some of the other individuals there might feel is there's something going on.
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That's why we have the crime prevention officer.
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His uniform is a light blue shirt.
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A little bit more of a softer police department as you will.
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So when they're seen in these establishments, it's a little bit more of a easier, I would say, more smoother approach.
Jason Savino
2:04:37
And just From an investigative standpoint, we have partnerships with HSI at Okay.
2:04:43
United State Attorney.
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Polls still.
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The list goes on and on as well.
Chris Banks
2:04:47
Excellent.
2:04:47
The We
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
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also want legislation at the federal level so that banks can restore the money that has been scammed.
2:04:59
Right.
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In the way credit cards do, that is one of the things that we're working on.
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I mean, that is outside their jurisdiction, but it is something that we want your partnership on.
Chris Banks
2:05:10
Yes.
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Can I do too much?
Crystal Hudson
2:05:14
Let me hear the first one, and then I'll decide
Josh Levin
2:05:15
about Oh,
Chris Banks
2:05:16
well, this is a simple one.
