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4 unusual facts about New York City Police Department


Arthur L. Jenkins

In 2001, Jenkins was named an Honorary Police Surgeon of the New York City Police Department.

David John Farmer

His practitioner experience included work as a management consultant for the Public Administration Service and for the Jacobs Company (1965-1971), as director of Operations Management and special assistant to the police commissioner in the New York City Police Department (1971-1974), and as a division director in the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice (1974–1980).

No Place on Earth

In 1993, NYPD officer and caving enthusiast Chris Nicola visited Ukraine to explore the Verteba and Priest's Grotto caves, and found evidence that they had recently been inhabited by humans.

Our Family Honor

Launched as a two-hour TV-movie, Our Family Honor is about two New York City families who had known each other since their childhoods and who were involved in competing "family businesses" – the McKay family mostly worked for the New York City Police Department, where Patrick (Kenneth McMillan) was Commissioner, while the Danzigs were deeply involved in organized crime, with patriarch Vincent (Eli Wallach) filling the role of "godfather".


Emmett Fitzsimmons

Robert Emmett Fitzsimmons, known professionally as Emmett Fitzsimmons, is a former member of the NYPD police officer who has appeared in a number of films and television series, including Nurse Jackie, Burn Notice, and The Cape.

Frank Serpico

Francesco Vincent Serpico (born April 14, 1936) is a retired American New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who is most famous for blowing the whistle on police corruption in the late 1960s and early 1970s—an act of valor that compelled Mayor John V. Lindsay to appoint the landmark Knapp Commission to investigate the NYPD.

Howard P. Becker

Becker was the son of Charles Becker, a notoriously corrupt New York police officer who went to the electric chair for murder in July 1915, and Letitia Stenson, of Ontario.

Jorge L. Ramos

Raymond Kelly, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department awarded Ramos a special recognition for his work on the program.

Monique Jeffries

Monique Jeffries is a tough and street-wise detective with the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department.

A regular character during the first season, Jeffries is a tough and street-wise detective with the New York City Police Department's Special Victims Unit, and briefly the partner of John Munch (Richard Belzer).

Nola Falacci

Falacci is introduced in the episode "Seeds" as the temporary partner of Det. Mike Logan (Chris Noth), assigned to the Major Case Squad of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), due to Det. Megan Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) going over to Europe to teach American police procedure to European police officers (covering Nicholson's first maternity leave).

Rebel Diaz

On June 18, 2008, two days after returning from a conference in Berlin, Germany, G1 and RodStarz were arrested by the NYPD when they were showing a friend around the South Bronx.

Stanley White

He joined the New York City Police Department in, or around, 1970 and was originally based in Brooklyn before being transferred to the 5th Precinct in Chinatown, Manhattan.

The Walter Winchell File

The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror.


see also

Eischied

The series stars Joe Don Baker as tough, brilliant, southern-bred New York City Police Department, NYPD Chief of Detectives Earl Eischied.

French Connection

Former New York City Police Department Narcotics Bureau detective Sonny Grosso has stated that the kingpin of the French Connection heroin ring during the 1950s into the 1960s was Corsican Jean Jehan.

Joe Esposito

Joseph Esposito (born 1950), American law enforcement official who joined New York City Police Department (NYPD) at age 18 and rose through ranks to reach, in August 2000, highest uniformed position, Chief of Department