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The three platoon system shall not apply to or govern the hours or tours of duty of sergeants or police officers of the city of New York, who may from time to time be detailed or assigned to what is known and designated as the traffic squad, provided, nevertheless, that the total number of members of the police force or department of such city, so detailed or assigned to such traffic squad, shall not at any time exceed in the aggregate one-third of the entire police force or department.
a. The number and boundaries of the precincts shall be fixed by the commissioner. The commissioner shall, from time to time, with the approval of the mayor, within the appropriation provided therefor, establish, provide and furnish stations and station houses, or substations and substation houses, at least one to each precinct, for the accommodation thereat of members of the force, and as places of temporary detention for persons arrested and property taken within the precinct. However, the commissioner shall provide written notice with supporting documentation at least forty-five days prior to the permanent closing, removal or relocation of any permanent station, station house, substation or substation house to the council members, community boards and borough presidents whose districts are served by such facility and the chairperson of the council's public safety committee. For purposes of this section, the term "permanent" shall mean a time period in excess of six months. In the event that the permanent closing of any stations and station houses, or substations and substation houses does not occur within four months of the date of the written notice, the commissioner shall issue another written notice with supporting documentation prior to such permanent closing. The four months during which the written notice is effective shall be tolled for any period in which a restraining order or injunction prohibiting the closing of such noticed facility shall be in effect.
b. A sufficient sum of money shall be appropriated annually for the purpose of furnishing horses, automotive equipment and apparatus connected therewith, and the maintenance thereof, and for the other purposes authorized by this section.
a. Every arrest made by any member of the force shall be made known immediately to the superior on duty in the precinct wherein the arrest was made, by the person making the same. It shall be the duty of such superior, to make written return of such arrest within twenty-four hours, according to the rules and regulations of the department, with the name of the party arrested, the alleged offense, the time and place of arrest, and the place of detention.
b. Each member of the force, under the penalty of ten days' fine, or dismissal from the force, at the discretion of the commissioner, immediately upon an arrest, shall convey in person the offender before the nearest sitting judge of the criminal court, that he or she may be dealt with according to law. If the arrest is made during the hours that the judge of the criminal court does not regularly hold court, or if the judge of the criminal court is not holding court, such offender may be detained in a precinct or station house thereof, until the next regular public sitting of the judge of the criminal court, and no longer, and shall then be conveyed without delay before the judge of the criminal court to be dealt with according to law.
The commissioner shall designate one or more station houses for the detention and confinement of women under arrest in the city. The commissioner shall provide sufficient accommodations for women held under arrest, keep them separate and apart from the cells, corridors and apartments provided for males under arrest, and so arrange each station house that no communication can be had between men and women therein confined, except with the consent of the officer in command of such station house. Officers or employees other than female staff assigned to this detail, shall be admitted to the corridors or cells of the women prisoners only with the consent of the officer in command of such station house. In every station house to which female members of the force or other female staff are detailed, toilet accommodations shall be provided for female staff, which accommodations shall be wholly separate and apart from the toilet accommodations provided for prisoners, or for male personnel attached to such station house.
Whenever a woman is arrested and taken to a police station, it shall be the duty of the officer in command of the station to cause a female staff member assigned to this detail to be summoned forthwith, and whenever a woman is arrested in any precinct in which no such female staff member is assigned, she shall be taken directly to the station house designated to receive the women prisoners of the precinct in which the arrest is made. Such separate confinement, or any such removal of any woman, shall not operate to take from any court any jurisdiction which it would have had. The term "woman" as used in this section and section 14-131 of this title shall not include any female either actually or apparently under the age of sixteen years whose care is assumed by any incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to children; but every such female detainee under the age of sixteen shall be taken directly to a station house designated to receive women prisoners and shall be at once transferred therefrom by the officer in charge, to the custody of such society.
In any precinct or precincts, comprising waters of the harbor, the commissioner may use and procure, through the department of citywide administrative services, such boats as shall be deemed necessary.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.
Whenever any member of the uniformed force of the department shall, while in the actual performance of police duty, lose or have destroyed any of his or her personal belongings, satisfactory proof thereof having been shown to the commissioner, such member shall be reimbursed to the extent of the loss sustained, at the expense of the city.
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