ABSTRACT

Whether you talk about the September 11, 2001 attack, Hurricane Sandy, the anksgiving Parade, or a New York Yankees World Series baseball championship game, the city of New York has had plenty of experience planning for and responding to large-scale events. e New York City Police Department “Patrol Guide,” the agency’s primary policy and procedural manual, contains thousands of pages and hundreds of guidelines and protocols to address

Introduction 179 e New York City Police Department: Policies and Procedures 180 Preparation for Preplanned Events 181 Response and Coordination at Signicant Spontaneous Incidents 182 Incident Command Team 183 Police Resources and Deployment 184 Supervisory Competence 185 e NYPD “Unusual Disorder Plan” 185 Jurisdiction-Wide Mobilization Plan 187 O-Duty Mobilization Plan 189 Citywide Incident Management System 189 e NYPD Response on September 11, 2001 191 Conclusion 193 References 193 About the Author 193

potential scenarios that law enforcement ocers could encounter during their daily routines. ree full sections of this guidebook, specically “NYPD Patrol Guide Section 212-Command Operations,” “NYPD Patrol Guide Section 213-Mobilization/Emergency Incidents,” and “NYPD Patrol Guide Section 220-Citywide Emergency Management System (CIMS)” outline in detail the steps that NYPD supervisors and resources should take under specic situations, most of which would involve critical incidents or large-scale events. Much of this material has been incorporated into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Incident Management System mandates, which were developed aer the September 11, 2001 attacks and which delineate standardized measures for critical incident response for rst responder agencies across the United States. And nally, the city of New York, which created the New York City Oce of Emergency Management in 1996 as an interagency mechanism to synergize the deployment of numerous organizations to large-scale events, also has constructed the Citywide Incident Management System to ensure that incident response is properly coordinated.

e New York City Police Department, created in 1845, has possessed a rules and regulations manual since its inception. is guidebook has over the decades evolved into the NYPD Department Manual, one of a trilogy of ocial instructional volumes that also include the NYPD Administrative Guide, the NYPD Organization Guide, and NYPD Patrol Guide (New York City Police Department, 2013), all of which continue to provide procedural guidance to the agency’s personnel across the organization. In addition, many of the NYPD’s investigative bureaus and divisions also maintain their own procedural manuals. ese documents, whose pages well exceed the thousands, are also complemented by “Interim Orders,” “Operational Orders,” “Finest Messages” (sent through the teletype), and NYPD bureau level memos that provide contemporary and at times temporary revision to agency protocol. Add the New York State Penal Law, the New York State Criminal Procedural Law, the New York City Charter, the New York City Administrative Code, the New York State Vehicle and Trac Law, the New York City Trac Regulations, and the NYPD Legal Division Bulletins, which detail relevant appellate court decisions, and one can easily note that the resources of the NYPD have a plethora of detailed information that guide their daily actions.