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A Nassau County Public Safety Committee vote on a proposal to convert four of eight police precincts into community policing centers was postponed when shouting matches broke out between legislators on Monday.
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Aaron Axelson
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2/8/12
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Four Nassau County police precincts, including the First Precinct in Baldwin and the Fifth Precinct in Elmont will be transformed into Community Policing Centers in an effort to save Nassau County $20 million annually, County Executive Ed Mangano announced at a press conference Monday.
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AARON AXELSON
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2/1/12
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Nassau County Police are warning young people to be on the lookout for a white van after three teens were approached in separate incidents by the driver over the past week in the North Merrick-North Bellmore and East Meadow areas. The teens were asked whether they wanted a ride. The teens ran home and informed their parents, who called police.
Authorities said the teens did the right thing by running away and letting police know.
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1/14/12
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They’re called “pharm parties,” short for pharmacy parties. A group of teenagers –– perhaps as young as 12 and 13 years old –– methodically swipe opiate-based pain killers like Oxycontin and Oxycodone from their parents’ and grandparents’ medicine cabinets, dump the pills into a big bowl when no adult is looking and take turns rolling a die. Whatever number comes up, that’s the number of pills a teen must ingest.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/12/12
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A corrections officer from Elmont was killed in a car crash at 12:01 a.m. today while driving westbound on the Southern State Parkway, near Peninsula Boulevard.
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By Jackie Nash, jnash@liherald.com
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12/13/11
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Long Beach police arrested three men on Monday morning during a drug-related and loan sharking bust in which more than $100,000 was seized from a home on Minnesota Avenue, part of a joint …
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11/7/11
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“The precinct is just a building,” according to Katie Grilli-Robles, spokeswoman for Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano. Closing two of the county’s eight police precincts, …
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Lee Landor
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10/19/11
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At around 3 p.m. on Oct. 17, Nassau County Police shot and killed the second of two pit bulls that mauled 62-year-old Shashi Sharma in late September at the Brookside School in North Merrick, digging its teeth into her arms, legs and head.
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By David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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10/17/11
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I have called on PBA President Jim Carver to stop his juvenile advertising campaign that is filled with scare tactics and half-truths.
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By Ed Mangano
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9/29/11
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This month we marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11. During and after the attacks, thousands of police and fire personnel responded to the scene regardless of whether they were working or not. They responded because that’s what we are all about. Our job is to help those in need.
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By Jim Carver
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9/29/11
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