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W. K. Brown
Jerry Ferguson
Barry Horney
James Lowney
Trebor Nehoc
Dorothy Uhnak
As part of his mayoral campaign, candidate Rudolph
Giuliani pledged to end the long unresolved discussion and merge all three of New York City's police departments (the NYPD, the Transit Police, and the NYC Housing Authority Police Department) into a single, coordinated force. Mayor Giuliani took office on January 1, 1994, and immediately undertook to fulfill his promise and end
a problem that had defied final solution for almost half a century. Discussions
between the City and the New York City Transit Authority produced a memorandum of understanding, and on April 2, 1995, the
NYC Transit Police was consolidated with the New York City Police Department to become a new Bureau within the NYPD. After a reorganization of the Department in February of 1997, the Transit Bureau
became the Transit Division within the newly formed Transportation Bureau. The Transportation Bureau dissolved in the Spring
of 1998 and in July of 1999, the Transit Division once again became the Transit Bureau. The Transit Bureau has entered the
new millennium and shall continue to provide dedicated police protection to the nation's largest rapid transit system in the 21st century.
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