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The List of Long Island law enforcement agencies provides an inclusive list of law enforcement agencies serving New York's Long Island.This includes those agencies serving the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens on the western portion of Long Island along with those serving the suburban counties of Nassau County and Suffolk County.
Flag of the State of New York. As of 2018, there were 528 law enforcement agencies in New York State employing 68,810 police officers, some agencies employ peace / Special Patrolmen (about 352 for each 100,000 residents) according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
A 1960 Plymouth Suffolk County Police car at the Police Headquarters and Museum in Yaphank, New York. SCPD painted their cars this way from 1960 to 1972. Prior to 1960, law enforcement in Suffolk County was the responsibility of local towns and villages as well as the New York State Police.
In New York State, each county has an elected district attorney who is responsible for the prosecution of violations of New York state laws. Federal law in the city of New York is prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York or the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York .
As the uniformed law enforcement representatives of the Department of Environmental Conservation, environmental conservation police are responsible for the enforcement of the environmental laws and regulations of New York and for the detection and investigation of suspected violations.
The Suffolk County Police are the primary law enforcement agency in Smithtown. They are responsible for responding to all 911 emergency calls. The Smithtown Department of Public Safety is an agency with limited powers. The Park Ranger Division is made up peace officers as defined in the Criminal Procedural Law of the state of New York. [24 ...
Their mission statement is to provide public safety and state land protection through expertise in wildland search, rescue, fire, law enforcement, and incident management throughout the State of New York. Forest Rangers patrol 4,300,000 acres (17,000 km 2) of Department-administered public lands and easements by vehicle, boat, ATV, snowmobile ...
In 1986 the Suffolk County Open Space Program financed by a 0.25% sales tax was to result in 28 new Suffolk County Parks in the region totalling 4,600 acres (19 km 2) [1] Despite the efforts development pressure continued and in 1989 the Long Island Pine Barrens Society filed a multibillion-dollar suit against Suffolk County, and the towns of ...