The NYPD Transportation Bureau is one of the eight bureaus that comprise the New York City Police Department and is currently headed by Bureau Chief James Tuller
The Transportation Bureau's responsibilities include traffic enforcement, traffic management, and highway safety.
Units within the New York City Police Department Transportation Bureau include the:
- Traffic Management Center
- TrafficStat Unit
- Investigations Unit
- Highway Patrol
- Highway Unit 1 (Bronx and Manhattan)
- Highway Unit 2 (Brooklyn)
- Highway Unit 3 (Queens)
- Highway Unit 5 (Staten Island)
- Accident Investigation Squad
- Traffic Operations District
- Special Events Unit
- Manhattan Traffic Task Force
- Bus Unit
- Taxi Unit
- Traffic Enforcement District
- Intersection Control Section
- Tow Operations Section
- Traffic Special Operations Section
- Summons Enforcement Section
The Transportation Bureau also included the Transit Division from 1997 to 1999. That division was upgraded to bureau status, as it once had from 1995 to 1997 and again in 1999.
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