AGENCY TESTIMONY
OIG-NYPD's mandate and focus on systemic investigations
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Commissioner Strauber explains the core mandate of OIG-NYPD and its focus on systemic investigations of NYPD policies and practices.
- OIG-NYPD was created in 2024 under Local Law 70 to investigate, review, study, audit, and make recommendations on NYPD operations, policies, programs, and practices
- The office focuses primarily on examinations of department operations, policies, procedures, and practices
- Potential criminal matters involving individual NYPD personnel are generally handled by other DOI squads
- Investigations may be based on complaint trends, media reports, community concerns, and information from advocacy groups
- Since its inception, OIG-NYPD has issued 35 reports and 263 recommendations, with 9 reports and 61 recommendations since the beginning of 2023
Jocelyn Strauber
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OIGNYPD was created in 2024 in accordance with local law 70, which directed the DOI commissioner to appoint an inspector general to investigate, review, study, audit, and make recommendations relating to the operations, policies, programs, and practices of NYPD.
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This mandate is the core of OIG NYPD's work.
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And since my tenure in early 2022, OIGNYPD has and will continue to focus primarily on examinations of the department's operations, policies, procedures, and practices.
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To the extent there are potential criminal matters involving individual NYPD personnel, those generally are handled by other DOI squads.
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Like other DOI squads, OIG NYPD's policy and procedure investigations may be based on complaint trends, media reports, community concerns, and information provided by advocacy groups among other sources.
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Most of the individual complaints OIG NYPD receives do not result in investigations because they fall outside the office's mandate and are therefore generally referred to other agencies.
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For example, complaints relating to an individual's interaction with a police officer or officers would typically be referred to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the CCRB.
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Although as I noted, we retain information about all complaints received in order to assess complaint trends, which could lead us to open a systemic investigation.
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Overall, the percentage of complaints to OIG NYPD that resulted in investigations are roughly consistent with DOI's overall figures.
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Since its inception, over 10 years ago, OIG NYPD has issued 35 reports and 200 and 63 recommendations with 9 reports issued since the beginning of calendar year 2023 with 61 related recommendations.
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It is my responsibility as DOI commissioner to ensure that OIGNYPD effectively carries out its mandate.