The NYPD will send officers to Tucson, Arizona, and Bogotá, Colombia, to help address the immigration crisis and the flow of drugs and weapons crossing the southern border of the United States bound for the Big Apple.
Police Commissioner Edward Caban announced the expansion of the department’s International Liaison Program during his “State of the NYPD” address at Cipriani in Midtown on Wednesday morning.
The program, funded by the nonprofit New York City Police Foundation, currently has 18 officers operating in 14 locations around the world.
“These publications will help the NYPD address the myriad issues that arise across our southern border, from guns to drugs to people,” said NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner.
NYPD officer in Tucson will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection on issues including searches for fentanyl, transnational criminal organizations that could have a footprint in New York City and the immigration crisis , said.
Police Commissioner Edward Caban announced the two new liaison positions during his State of the NYPD address on Wednesday. Matthew McDermott
The Bogotá liaison will focus on migratory routes, drug trafficking and other transnational criminal matters, while working in conjunction with the Colombian National Police, Weiner said.
“We are not going to wait for the problem to come to us. We are not going to say that this is someone else’s responsibility. “Our job is to protect our city, and so we have to do it by really understanding that the root of the problem is how these scourges that I mentioned are coming to New York,” Weiner said.
The two new positions will bring to 16 the total number of locations where the NYPD has liaisons.
The NYPD already has 14 liaison locations around the world.
Agents, primarily focused on counterterrorism intelligence gathering, are already stationed in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as well as Toronto and Montreal in Canada, and in world capitals such as London, Paris and Madrid. Other locations include: Tel Aviv. Abu Dhabi, Doha, Singapore, Sydney, Amman, Lyon, Santo Domingo and The Hague.
The liaison in Tel Aviv that is integrated with the Israel International Police has sent updates “hourly” to the NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, Weiner said.
Weiner said he learned about the surprise attacks during a phone call from the NYPD’s liaison in Tel Aviv while he was on a trip to Colombia with Mayor Eric Adams to discuss immigration.
The commissioner delivered his remarks before members of the NYPD, Mayor Eric Adams and other local politicians. Matthew McDermott
“Within hours of that phone call we were back in New York City and responding to the first of more than 600 conflict-related protests that have taken place here since October 7,” Weiner said.
“Without the International Liaison Program, the NYPD would be short-sighted, resigned to policing the most global and interconnected city in the world without truly seeing beyond our borders,” Weiner said.
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