The Westchester County Department of Public Safety was created in 1979 by merging the Westchester County Sheriff's Office with the Westchester County Parkway Police.
The current Commissioner/Sheriff is George Longworth.
The department provides primary police coverage for county parks, parkways and facilities. It also provide patrols within Town of Cortlandt and Town of Ossining under an Inter-Municipal Agreement. The department is the third largest law enforcement agency in Westchester County after the Department of Corrections and the City of Yonkers Police.
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