From the Daily News:The ranks of city Parks Enforcement Patrol officers are so thin that only one officer is available to patrol all Queens parks this summer, union officials charged.
Most of the borough’s PEP officers have been assigned to busy pools and beachfront areas, leaving acres of parks without a security presence, according to Joseph Puleo of DC 37 Local 983, which represents the officers.
The situation has caught the attention of City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., who recently fired off a letter to the Parks Department, asking officials to explain the staffing levels.
“We knew it was bad but I don’t think anyone realized it was this bad,” said Vallone (D-Astoria), who heads the Council’s Public Safety Committee.
“There are more rovers on Mars than there are PEP officers in Queens,” he quipped to the Daily News.
Vallone and Puleo said the lack of PEP officers is especially troublesome since the Police Department does not have enough patrol officers to keep an eye on parks.
8 comments:
Is it any wonder that our parks are in such horrible and unsafe condition?
Why has Vallone waited until the end of summer to point this out???
Oh come on Vallone, you live a few blocks from Astoria Park - it had tons of enforcement officers and maintenance staff a decade or two ago.
Now community groups do the work. They are supposed to do visioning for the park's future but the Vallone pretty much ignores them so they end up pulling shopping carts out of the river.
when there are plenty of BOCCE PLAYERS in the park, P.E.P.'S are not needed.
Well, wadda ya know?
Don Pietro "junior" Vallone , prominent political mafioso, wants to be our next borough president.
He's pretending to care about all the right issues,
but if he gets in, the wheels of overdevelopment in Queens will be greased daily.
La famiglia di Vallone has been supported by developers in every campaign they ran!
Buy their bullshit and you buy yourself a gang rape!
Liven up with PEP...PEP...Pepsi Cola!
He's pretending to care about all the right issues,
but if he gets in, the wheels of overdevelopment in Queens will be greased daily.
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How could it POSSIBLY be greased any more than it is now?
This revelation was made at a joint parks-public safety meeting in January 2012 co-chaired by Vallone.
It's almost September and is just getting press now?
How can it be greased any more than it is now?
The Vallones have bought a train load of WD 40!
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