Description

The Unit consists of plain-clothes officers who are currently headquartered out of the Tarrytown Police Department facility and include both full and part-time personnel from all participating departments.  The Unit conducts both long and short term narcotics and alcohol related investigations, which includes undercover operations giving special attention to jurisdictional conditions, buy and bust stings, the execution of search warrants and joint operations with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Secret Service and various local law enforcement agencies, which are generally difficult for any of the departments to conduct on their own, as police personnel tend to become well known in the communities in which they work.

Since the day the Unit was assembled and began operations they have made over 5,000 arrests within 22 jurisdictions, seizing hundreds of pounds of marijuana, large amounts of Heroin, Cocaine and illegally diverted Prescription Pills in addition to dozens of illegally possessed firearms.  The Task Force, with the assistance of both the local District Attorney’s Office and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office has also seized illegal drug proceeds totaling in the millions of dollars, a percentage of which is returned to the Task Force through the asset forfeiture process, for use in conducting undercover drug purchase operations and acquiring equipment to operate safely.