METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY POLICE

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The 'Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police' is the police agency of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or MTA. Officers of the MTA Police are fully empowered under the New York State Public Authorities Law and are commissioned in the state of Connecticut.
The department was formed in 1998, with the consolidation of the Long Island Rail Road Police and the Metro-North Railroad Police Departments. Since 9/11, the department has expanded in size and has ramped up dramatically its counter-terrorism capabilities, adding canine teams and emergency services officers. There are 1 lieutenant, 4 sergeants, and 46 police officers who are assigned to the K-9 Unit and serve as handlers with their canine partners.
On June 1, 2005 the MTA Staten Island Railway Police Department, with 25 officers, was merged with the MTA Police. The MTA Staten Island Railway Police Department was responsible for policing the Staten Island Rapid Transit System (SIRT) in the Staten Island borough of New York City. This was the final step in consolidating MTA agency law enforcement, and increased the total workforce of the department to 716, including civilians.

Contents

Command Staff

Ranks of Department

Police Districts

Specialized Units

Union representation

See Also

External links

Command Staff

'The department's current command staff:'

★ Director William Morange, Director of Security

★ Assistant Director Raymond McDermott, Assistant Director of Security

★ Chief Kevin McConville, Chief of Department

★ Deputy Chief Ronald Masciana

★ Assistant Deputy Chief John D'Agostino

★ Assistant Deputy Chief Kathleen Finneran

★ Assistant Deputy Chief Terrence Culhane

★ Assistant Deputy Chief Stephen Conner

★ Assistant Deputy Chief Thomas Odessa

★ Assistant Deputy Chief Sean McLaughlin

★ Assistant Deputy Chief Kim Rehbein

★ Assistant Deputy Chief Ernest Pucillo

★ Inspector Kevin King

★ Inspector Joseph Martelli

★ Inspector Sean Montgomery

★ Inspector Thomas Dunn

★ Inspector Robert Terrett

★ Captain: Serve as district and detail commanding officers and executive officers.

Ranks of Department

The following is a list of all of the ranks of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department:

★ Police Officer

★ Detective

★ Sergeant

★ Detective Sergeant

★ Lieutenant

★ Detective Lieutenant (currently none)

★ Captain

★ Deputy Inspector

★ Inspector

★ Assistant Deputy Chief (1-star)

★ Deputy Chief (2-star)

★ Assistant Chief (3-star, currently none)

★ Chief of Department (4-star)

Police Districts

'The districts of the M.T.A. Police Department include:'

★ District # 1 - Suffolk County, Long Island, New York

★ District # 2 - Nassau County, Long Island, New York

★ District # 3 - Queens/Brooklyn, New York

★ District # 4 - Penn Station, Manhattan, New York

★ District # 5 - Grand Central Terminal and 125th Street Station, Manhattan, New York

★ District # 6 - Westchester County and the Bronx, New York

★ District # 7 - Rockland, Putnam, and Orange Counties of New York

★ District # 8 - State of Connecticut

★ District # 9 - Staten Island

Specialized Units

'The department has the following specialized units (details):'

★ Detective Division

★ Inter-agency Counterterrorism Task Force (ICTF)

★ Emergency Services Unit (ESU)

★ Canine Unit (K-9)

★ Highway Unit

★ Communications Unit

★ Internal Affairs Bureau

★ Technology & System Development (TSD)

Union representation

The department's ranks of Police Officer, Detective, Sergeant, and Lieutenant are represented by one union, Police Benevolent Association (P.B.A.). The M.T.A. P.B.A. is located at 181 South Franklin Avenue, Suite 303, Valley Stream, New York and can be contacted at (516) 823-8930. The P.B.A. Executive Board is as follows:

★ President Raymond Gimmler

★ Executive Vice President Michael O'Meara

★ Area Vice President Vincent Provenzano

★ Area Vice President Tony Spano

★ Treasurer Raymond McGee

★ Recording Secretary Denis David

★ Corresponding Secretary William Waring

★ Total of 11 trustees with one per district and 2 supervisory trustees.

See Also

★ M.T.A. Police Benevolent Association website [1]

External links

★ MTA Police Overtime Adding Up

★ MTA Police-A Consolidated Force

★ Request for Information Form