Manhattan, NY – Portions of an NYPD patrol guide were plucked from a trash can outside a midtown NYPD building – the same bin where counterterrorism paperwork was found in May.
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For the second time this year, blogger Bucky Turco walked by the Manhattan South Task Force on W. 42nd St. and found a stack of police documents sitting in a city trash bin outside the building, he said.
“They were just right there,” said Turco, who planned to post some of the documents today on animalnewyork.com. “They were in perfect condition.”
The 12-page packet – which was obtained by the Daily News – outlines basic NYPD procedures that include how to safely resolve confrontations among officers and how to deal with hostage situations.
It also details protocol to test officers for alcohol after a cop fires a gun and injures or kills a person.
The paperwork, dated Feb. 18, includes a summary of duties for a field intelligence officer, who is responsible for gathering and sharing information with several departments.
In May, Turco found an eight-page plan labeled “law enforcement sensitive” – a small part of the city’s counterterrorism plans – in the same trash can.
The paperwork detailed locations in Times Square where anti-terror cops were deployed to conduct sweeps. It also listed the types of suspicious behavior cops should be looking for when inspecting vehicles.
Paul Browne, the top spokesman for the NYPD, said the officers working at the building should take more care in discarding documents.
This is not a story. I have a copy of the patrol guide in my office. You can order it from a bookstore. Police officers, lawyers, judges, and anyone who wants to be a police officer, use that book. It is not in any way, shape, or form a secret document.
This is nonsense.