Q&A
NYPD officer training on elder abuse identification
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Council Member Hudson inquires about the training of 6,000 NYPD officers on elder abuse identification. Multiple panel members provide information on the extent and nature of the training program.
- Initially, 6,000 officers were trained before the older adult liaisons program
- All police recruits receive training on identifying elder abuse as part of their academy curriculum
- As of September 24, 24,582 uniform members and 12,889 civilian employees have been trained
- Training is conducted both internally by NYPD and in partnership with the Department for the Aging
Crystal Hudson
0:40:19
Thank you.
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And then 6000 police officers were also referenced that have gone through trainings to make sure they can identify elder abuse when they see it.
0:40:31
And that's out of, I believe, a total of 36,000 officers.
0:40:35
So Do we know, like, which officers, how those 6000 were identified or selected to go through the training?
0:40:42
Which precincts they're in?
0:40:45
And is there a plan to expand the remaining 30,000 officer and then a timeline for that plan.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:40:52
Again, I wanna be real clear.
0:40:54
We started that initiative of training officers before we had older adult liaisons.
0:41:00
So what what I'm reporting to you is the before and then the current state.
0:41:05
So before we had the older adult liaisons, we had a regular partnership with NYPD of training officers just on older adult issues.
0:41:15
We didn't have a specific person assigned to us.
0:41:19
And so that that was that process of training as many officers as we can.
0:41:24
I can get you the data as to where and how that process was done.
0:41:29
And it was usually done through the Police Academy and sometimes through through local presence, but I can get you that data.
0:41:38
But what we now have is the older adult liaison, and that is a different set of of of training.
0:41:44
So I just wanna make sure that we are clear that this has been an ongoing process of cultivating this relationship and where we are today.
Crystal Hudson
0:41:53
Okay.
0:41:53
Great.
0:41:53
I appreciate the clarification.
0:41:55
Thank you.
Josh Levin
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Chair, I'm sorry.
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Can I add one thing to that?
Crystal Hudson
0:41:57
Yeah.
Josh Levin
0:41:57
I don't want the impression to be that 6000 officers are the only people in NYPD who have been trained on identifying the signs of elder abuse.
0:42:05
I went through our academy materials.
0:42:08
Every single recruit who comes through the academy gets a module that is specifically dedicated to identifying the types of abuse against the elderly, whether it's psychological, whether it is financial, and it lays out the signs to look for, it lays out how to help them.
0:42:24
I don't wanna give all my the the the information away, but you know, how to connect them with other agencies, as the partnerships, etcetera.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
0:42:31
Okay.
0:42:32
That's great.
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And I wanna just add that as of September 24, 24,582 uniform members.
0:42:44
Have been trained.
0:42:45
Oh, that's 12,889 civilian employees have also been trained.
Crystal Hudson
0:42:51
Okay.
0:42:51
And they've been trained by you all or internally within the NYPD, or what does that look like?
0:43:00
Through the module, the same module that you referenced that we have.
