16 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • AUGUST 2019
POINT OF VIEW
BREAKING GROUND
NEW POLICE
ACADEMY
By LAURA CURRAN
Nassau County Executive
Since 1982, Nassau County’s law
enforcement officers have not had access
to a permanent training facility.
Instead of working from a real police
academy, the brave men and women
we depend on for our safety have
“The center will serve as a vital resource to our
entire law enforcement community.”
been shuffled through temporary
facilities. Most recently, they have
been renting out a classroom at an
elementary school in Massapequa.
Meanwhile, corrections officers are
being trained in dilapidated trailers.
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It is unacceptable. From the moment
I took office, I began organizing officials
to finalize a state-of-the-art
academy worthy of the officers and
communities it would serve.
The past arrangement wasn’t just undermining
critical training and intelligence
procedures for the 13th largest
police force in the nation, it was also
breaking the bank for our taxpayers.
That is why I proudly stood with local
officials on May 29 as we broke ground
on a new police academy.
The new Nassau County Training
and Intelligence Center will be
located in Garden City and is slated
to open in 2021. The groundbreaking
marked an important moment
in a years-long effort to build a new
facility.
Thanks to private and public support
gathered through the Nassau County
Police Department Foundation, we
provided $3.9 million in donated
services to fund the 89,000-squarefoot
facility, which will provide both
academic and physical training for
officers and will house the counterterrorism
specialized unit.
The new facility will usher in a new
era in police, correction officer and
probation officer training, and community
engagement. It will serve as
a model for shared services and may
provide working space with other
departments in the region.
Not only will the new center continue
to bring law enforcement into
the 21st century, but by replacing the
facility rented from Hawthorne Elementary
School, taxpayers will no
longer pay $700,000 a year in rent.
The new facility’s location on the
campus of Nassau Community
College will also improve recruitment
efforts by giving the
department access to the diverse
student body there and will greatly
benefit the college’s criminal
justice program.
The center will serve as a vital resource
to our entire law enforcement
community and will place Nassau on
the cutting edge of police training,
intelligence, and counterterrorism
expertise to proactively address the
threats facing our region now and in
the future.
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