56 New Police Cadets Sworn-In at Nassau’s New Police Academy

-Suozzi reports Nassau Crime Down 12.6% in 2007

-Crime at Lowest Rates in 41 Years

-Nassau County: America’s Safest ‘Big’ Suburb

Massapequa, N.Y. - Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi and Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence W. Mulvey today swore in 56 new police recruits at a ceremony held at the new Nassau County Police Academy located in Massapequa Park.  Of the 56 new hires, 50 will join the ranks of the Nassau County Police Department, 4 will be hired to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, and 2 are training to be S.U.N.Y. police officers.  This new group of recruits will commence an intensive 6-month training session before they begin patrolling the streets of Nassau County by early this summer.

Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi and Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence W. Mulvey also released the latest Nassau County Crime Statistics showing an all-time record decrease of 12.6% in major crime during this past year.

“Nassau County continues to have one of the lowest crime rates of any municipality with a population of our size,” said County Executive Suozzi. “These record low numbers are due in part to the Department’s innovative anti-crime initiatives, modern state-of-the-art technology and NASS-STAT’s new crime-fighting programs,” Suozzi added.

Nassau County’s “crime index” is the lowest it has been in 41 years.

According to a compilation of FBI Crime Numbers, Nassau County’s 2007 Crime Statistics (“NASS-STAT”) and CQ (Congressional Quality Inc) Press’s 14th Edition Crime Rankings, it can be shown that “Nassau County is now the “safest” suburb, with a population over 500,000, in the nation.”

“It’s clear, that based on the latest crime statistics, Nassau County is the safest large suburban county in the nation with a population of more than 500,000 people,” said Mulvey.

Crime reductions have been achieved in virtually all major crime categories including: