Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police |
|
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | MTA Police |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1998 |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | New York, New York, USA |
| Legal jurisdiction | New York and Connecticut |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Police Officers | 646 |
| Director responsible |
|
| Agency executive |
|
| Parent agency | MTA |
| Units |
List
Patrol
Highway Patrol Detective Division Inter-agency Counterterrorism Task Force Emergency Services Unit Canine Unit (K-9) Communications Unit Technology & System Development Right of Way Task Force Internal Affairs Bureau |
| Facilities | |
| Districts |
9
District # 1 - Suffolk County, New York
District # 2 - Nassau County, New York District # 3 - Queens and Brooklyn Counties of New York District # 4 - Penn Station District # 5 - Grand Central Terminal and 125th Street Station District # 6 - Lower Westchester County and the Bronx, New York District # 7 - Upper Westchester, Dutchess, Rockland, Putnam, and Orange Counties of New York District # 8 - Fairfield and New Haven Counties of Connecticut District # 9 - Richmond County, New York |
| Website | |
| Official Site: http://www.mta.info/mta/police/ | |
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police, or MTA Police, is the police force of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority local railroad, or MTA. Officers of the MTA Police are full police officers in New York State and in the state of Connecticut. The force was started in 1998.
Related pages
Images for kids
-
Staten Island Rapid Transit Police Patch
-
MTA Police vehicle at the Tarrytown Metro-North station
All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.