File #: Int 0757-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring civilian complaint review board members to participate in a ride-along with a member of the police department.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 4/11/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring civilian complaint review board members to participate in a ride-along with a member of the police department
Sponsors: Robert F. Holden, Kalman Yeger , Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require members of the Civilian Complaint Review Board to ride along with a member of the New York City Police Department, within the first year of their appointment.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 757, 2. Int. No. 757, 3. April 11, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-24

Int. No. 757

 

By Council Members Holden, Yeger and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring civilian complaint review board members to participate in a ride-along with a member of the police department

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 440 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:

8. Within the first year after appointment, each member of the board shall participate in a ride-along with a member of the police department. The ride-along shall be:

(i) at least 2 hours long; and

(ii) conducted in the presence of a police officer performing police duties.

The failure by a board member to complete the ride-along within the first year after appointment shall not affect the validity of the member’s appointment to the board. A member appointed to fill a vacancy on the board shall be exempt from the requirements of this paragraph if the balance of the unexpired term the member is appointed to serve is less than 1 year.

§ 2. Subdivision (d) of section 440 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:

4. The police commissioner shall cooperate with members of the board to facilitate the ride-along with a member of the police department required by subdivision (c) of this section.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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