The First Precinct Community Council

New Crime Stoppers Poster

Here is a link to download the Crime Stoppers poster for the residential Burglary Pattern in Soho. Please send it out to all your contacts.

2011 Cop of the Month Award Recipients

January
PO Mauro
PO Biondolilo

February
PO Licari
PO Hoop

March
Sgt. Simons
PO Butt

April
Sgt Ranieri
PO Davis

May
Lt Robert Rudolph
PO Anthony DiFrancesca

2011 Awards for Transit District 2

Medal Day, December 2011

Transit District 2 was awarded the NYPD 2011 Unit Citation for the largest drop in crime of all of the Transit Districts throughout the city in 2011. Captain Paul Rasa was presented the award by Commissioner Kelly at the NYPD Medal Day at 1 Police Plaza in December 2011. Medal Day is an awards event that takes place every year to commends extraordinary accomplishments of various commands.

2011 Cop of the Month

June 2011 Arrest of Male Wanted for Attempted Robbery of Firearm from Holster of On Duty TMTF officer. The defendant had 14 prior arrests including 1 Rape, Robbery and 2 Assaults

• Sgt Ray Sanchez
• PO Gomez
• PO Noriega TD2 made the arrest

July Attempted Robbery Arrest TD2 officers arrested a man who attempted to forcibly remove a woman’s shoulder bag while she was walking on West Broadway, holding her 4 month old infant

• Sgt Joe Bertrand
• PO Alex Nunez

August Arrest at Penn Station of Pickpocket with 22 prior arrests incl Grand Larceny

• PO Mejia
• PO Corrado
• PO Gonsieski

September 2011 Arrest of Pick-Pocket w 38 Prior arrests at Brooklyn Bridge Station

• Sgt Correa
• Sgt Lo Grasso
• PO Cesar Gonzalez
• PO Harry Quezada

October 2011 TD2 Anti Crime Unit Lush Worker arrests: 15 Year to Date

• Sgt John Nunziato
• PO John Bartley
• PO Alex Bradshaw
• PO Mike Thomas
• PO Rob Garcia

Links to articles about lush workers:

• Old Subway Pros, Separating Drunk From Wallet (New York Times)
• Accused Lush Worker Describes How He’d Hypothetically Practice His Craft (Gothamist)
• Early American Crimes: Lush Workers (EarlyAmericanCrime.com)

November 2011 Bag Snatch arrest in Penn Station by defendant w 43 prior arrests

• Sgt Chris Correa
• PO Yeuris Mejia

December 2011 Arrest of lush worker who tried to steal a backpack from a sleeping passenger

• Sgt John Nunziato
• PO Alex Bradshaw
• PO Rob Garcia

President Obama Visits the First Precinct

Captain Edward Winksi holds up log book with President Obama’s signature after his visit to the 1st Precinct on May 5, 2011

NY1 STORY:

At 12:30 p.m. Thursday, President Barak Obama’s limousine pulled up to the 1st precinct stationhouse in TriBeCa, just blocks from the World Trade center site. Once inside, there was a strong show of the support from the New York City Police Department.

Officers proudly showed off where the commander-in chief signed into the stationhouse’s log book, with his name and “God Bless.” “On a personal level, it was an honor to meet with him, to say thank you and shake his hand,” said Lieutenant Franco Barberio of Emergency Services.

Read the story on NY1.

View the CNN video on YouTube.

1st Precinct Cop of the Month Appreciation and Award Ceremony

DNAinfo by Julie Shapiro

LOWER MANHATTAN — On May 7 of last year, the 911 call came in: A woman was lying unconscious on the floor of a Spring Street apartment.

Police Officer Lawrence Sanzari, with the 1st Precinct, rushed to the scene and found that the woman had no pulse and was not breathing. She was cold to the touch.

Sanzari immediately started CPR, and soon the woman’s heart began to beat and she started breathing faintly. A few minutes later, her pulse and breath stopped again, and Sanzari again revived her with CPR, keeping her alive until an ambulance arrived. She was transported to the hospital conscious and in stable condition.

Sanzari was just one of several dozen 1st Precinct police officers to receive a plaque and a standing ovation this week at a recognition ceremony in Battery Park City.

Browse our photo gallery below from this year’s event.

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“It shows them that their work is not unappreciated,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who attended the reception afterward at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. “We are aware of it.”

Read the full article on DNAinfo.com.

Listen to Shelli Sonstein’s commentary.