A Public Safety Town Hall hosted by Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar brought NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban, NYPD leadership, and commanding officers from neighboring precincts to Woodhaven Manor, on Jamaica Avenue, in Woodhaven, on Wednesday, Sept. 20.
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A public safety town hall hosted by Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar brought NYPD Police Commissioner Edward Caban, NYPD leadership and commanding officers from neighboring precincts to Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, on Wednesday, Sept. 20.
Invited guests and members of the public entered the Woodhaven Manor, located at 96-01 Jamaica Ave., beginning at around 5 p.m., for a chance to speak with the NYPD on a variety of public safety-related topics, including the presence of illegal smoke shops and reckless motorbike riders.
Rajkumar welcomed Caban and other members of the NYPD in attendance, including NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kaz Daughtry, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, Inspector William Glynn, in place of Chief of Patrol John Chell and NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella.
Assistant Chief Christine Bastednbeck, the commanding officer of NYPD Patrol Borough Queens North, and Assistant Chief Kevin Williams, the commanding officer of NYPD Patrol Borough Queens South, were also in attendance.
Neighborhood precinct commanding officers were present to answer questions from the public, including Captain Jeremy Kivlin of the 102nd Precinct, Deputy Inspector Kevin Coleman of the 104th Precinct and Deputy Inspector Jerome Bacchi of the 106th Precinct.
“When I ran for this office, I knocked on every door and the number one concern of everybody in our district was public safety. So we’re going to talk about it tonight,” said Rajkumar. “We’re going to talk about school safety, including cyber bullying. We’re going to talk about hate crimes. We’re going to talk about the proliferation of unlicensed illegal smoke shops cropping up in our district and we have the…
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