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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and local police officials announce a grant to improve police communications in 2017.
The Suffolk County Legislature approved $1.75 million in funding last Tuesday to upgrade police communication equipment on the East End, including a communication tower planned for Jamesport, an area police say has bad reception.
The project, initiated by Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini, is called the East End Law Enforcement Communication Project.
“Improving the communications systems utilized by the collaborative efforts between the District Attorney’s office, the Suffolk County Police Department and the various local police departments here on the East End will improve safety for the officers and community as a whole,” said Legislator Bridget Fleming, a co-sponsor of the bill authorizing the funds.
Shelter Island Town Justice Stanley Birnbaum. (Credit: Eleanor P. Labrozzi)
Except for the swearing in of a new Justice Court judge, Tuesday’s Town Board reorganization meeting was generally routine.
Stanley Birnbaum, who won election in November, was sworn in Tuesday by the other town justice, Mary-Faith Westervelt.
“You have some big shoes to fill,” Supervisor Gerry Siller told the new justice, referring to Helen Rosenblum, who served at the Justice Court for decades.
She came to the bench in 2003, initially to fill the unexpired term of Justice Edward Hannabury who had died. She was subsequently re-elected, until last November when she was defeated by Mr. Birnbaum.