Councilman Chaim Deutsch, Councilman Mark Treyger, State Senator Diane Savino, Assemblymember Helene Weinstein, and Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz have announced the upcoming launch of the NYPD’s neighborhood policing program in the 61st Precinct, which covers parts of Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Homecrest, Gravesend, and Manhattan Beach.

Neighborhood policing is a tool used to encourage more interaction between NYPD officers and the communities that they serve. Neighborhood Coordinating Officers (NCOs) are assigned to specific precincts, and work hand-in-hand with local residents to tackle quality of life issues and criminal activities.

Of the three precincts Councilman Deutsch represents – the 60th, the 61st, and the 70th – the 61st is the only one without the NCO program. Working in partnership with the NCO officers in other precincts, Deutsch has seen the positive results of the program firsthand and requested that Commissioner O’Neill expand it to include the 61stprecinct. By mid-January, every precinct in Deutsch’s district will have a neighborhood policing officers, one of the first districts in Southern Brooklyn to accomplish that goal.

The 48th Council District is one of the safest in the five boroughs, with the greatest crime reduction numbers in the entire New York City. Quality of life issues remain a concern for New Yorkers across the city, and Neighborhood Coordination Officers will be able to tackle these matters in a unique and productive way: by collaborating with the residents who live, work, and raise families right here in this community.

Councilman Chaim Deutsch said, “I am very pleased to be able to announce that the NCO program will soon be launched in the 61st Precinct. Neighborhood policing is a very effective tool in reducing crime and improving the quality of life of all of our residents. Under the leadership of Commissioner O’Neill and 61st Precinct Captain James King, our community is safer than it’s ever been, and I look forward to improving upon their great successes with the addition of Neighborhood Coordination Officers.”

(YWN Desk – NYC)