Authorizes and directs the city university of New York to allocate two million dollars for recruiting new cadets into its police cadet corps program for the 2009-2010 school year; the CUNY police cadet corps program is designed to prepare candidates for the complexities of modern police work in an ethnically diverse community.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4899
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, CLARK, V. LOPEZ, AUBRY, WRIGHT -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. BENJAMIN, BRODSKY, CHRISTENSEN, COLTON,
DIAZ, GANTT, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HIKIND, HOOPER, JACOBS, JOHN, ORTIZ,
PERRY, PRETLOW, SCHROEDER, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT authorizing and directing the city university of New York to
allocate certain moneys for the police cadet corps program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the city
2 university of New York is authorized and directed to allocate the sum of
3 two million dollars ($2,000,000) out of any moneys otherwise appropri-
4 ated to use for its police cadet corps program for the purposes of
5 recruiting an additional one thousand cadets for such program for the
6 2009-2010 school year. The city university of New York police cadet
7 corps program is designed to prepare candidates for the complexities of
8 modern police work in an ethnically diverse community. The program
9 combines college education, specialized coursework in law enforcement,
10 skill-development training and supervised public safety internships.
11 Through the extensive use of supervised internships, the program would
12 provide the police department with an excellent opportunity to assess
13 the capabilities and judge the character of candidates for police
14 service.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2009.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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