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Nassau County Police

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Members of the Nassau County Police pull a Jet Blue A320 plane 100 feet during the third annual Jet Blue Airbus A320 Plane Tug at JFK Airport on May 7, 2012 in New York City. Members of the London's Metropolitan Police Services went head-to-head with local law enforcement and airport crewmembers to see which team of up to 16 people could pull a 150,000 pound Jet Blue A320 aircraft 100 feet in the fastest time. A team of TSA employees had the fastest time of 32 seconds. The 'Brits VS Yanks' competition raises money and awareness for the Joining Against Cancer Kids (JACK) Foundation, a UK based organization that rase money for Neuroblastoma cancer research.

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  • Nassau campaigns against drunken driving

    news conference at the county's Highway Patrol Bureau in North Bellmore .He noted that four years ago, on May 18, Nassau County Police Officer Kenneth Baribault Jr., who had pulled over one drunken driver on the LIE, was hit by another drunken driver, Rahiem   Read more »

  • Cops: Operation Double Check nabs 3 sex offenders

    population is 100 percent accounted for and that's our goal," said Charles G. Dunne, the U.S. marshal for the Eastern District of New York. Nassau County Police commissioner Thomas Dale called the Operation Double Check a "very successful joint mission."   Read more »

  • High-ranking Nassau cop quits

    attrition."It is critical to bring in an experienced upper management team to assist me in keeping Nassau the safest large county in the U.S., as well as maintaining the morale and discipline of the Nassau County Police Department," Dale said at the time.   Read more »

  • Letters: Discipline and the Nassau PD

    I feel safer knowing they are out there protecting my family and me. Richard Koffler, Merrick I have a problem with the Nassau County police commissioner having sole discretion in the firing of so-called bad police officers ["Give commish power to fire," Editorial,   Read more »

  • Dale gets new discipline power in Nassau

    Nassau police commissioner the power to fire police officers as a disciplinary measure.But Jim Carver, President of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association, said his lawyers already are preparing a court challenge to that action. "It's a violation   Read more »

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