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Council member inquires about NYPD Community Affairs Bureau programs
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Council Member Nantasha Williams asks Assistant Commissioner Alden Foster about the programs run by the NYPD's Community Affairs Bureau. Foster provides an overview of their main initiatives, including the Explorers program, summer youth employment program, and summer youth police academy.
- The Explorers program operates in 78 precincts, 9 housing commands, and 12 transit districts, involving over 1,400 young people
- The summer youth employment program engages 1,000 young people annually
- The summer youth police academy, for ages 10-15, is run in collaboration with the Department of Education
Nantasha Williams
2:46:25
Thank you, chair.
2:46:26
I just was reading your testimony and you you talk about the community affairs unit and programs designed to meet young people where they are.
2:46:36
Can you talk a little bit more about the programs?
2:46:39
I mean you reference specific programs but if you can talk at a macro level the array of programs that the Community Affairs Bureau is engaged in.
Alden Foster
2:46:49
Yes.
2:46:50
Thank you council member for that question.
2:46:52
The Community Affairs Bureau, we oversee a lot of different programs that I spoke about today, but I think some of the ones that you're gonna be very familiar with is gonna be our explorers program.
2:47:01
Currently in NYPD all about 78 precincts, our nine housing commands, and 12 transit districts, and we have some ran out of schools.
2:47:09
We have over 1,400 young people that are in those programs.
2:47:13
Also, the Community Affairs Bureau, every summer we do the summer youth employment program that I talked about earlier, a thousand young people.
2:47:20
And then, have our summer youth police academy for ages 10 to 15, where we do that program with the Department of Education that is a program partnered with them that we do is run out of schools.
2:47:32
It's with our school safety agents, offices, and and those are really the three biggest programs that we have, but we we we have hundreds of programs that we do in collaboration with city agencies including DYCD.