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IBO February 2018 Evening Meeting with Guest Speaker James P. O'Neill - Police Commissioner of the City of New York

  • Wednesday, February 07, 2018
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016
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IBO February 2018 Evening Meeting 

Guest Speaker: James P. O'Neill - Police Commissioner of the City of New York

Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2018,

Time: Networking starts at 6:30 p.m. and meeting starts at 7:15 p.m.

Location: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between E. 37th and 38th Streets), New York, NY 10016


James P. O'Neill was appointed the 43rd police commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Bill de Blasio in September 2016. He had served previously as chief of department, the NYPD's highest uniformed rank. He was instrumental in developing neighborhood policing, which is renewing and recasting the NYPD's patrol function to provide greater police and community interaction and collaboration.

Widely experienced in both the patrol and the investigative sides of the department, Commissioner O'Neill is a hands-on police practitioner and a dedicated police reformer. He speaks with urgency about the need for police to evolve if they are to succeed in connecting with communities, and about keeping people safe in the 21st century.

Police Commissioner O'Neill began his law enforcement career in 1983 with the Transit Police, which was then an independent police department. He credits his time on patrol on the trains and platforms of the subway system with helping him learn how to interact and communicate with a wide range of people, a skill he regards as essential to successful police work. He had risen to lieutenant by the time of the 1995 merger of the Transit Police with the NYPD.

As a lieutenant in the NYPD, he worked at the police academy and the warrant squad before being promoted to captain and executive officer in the 52nd Precinct in the northern Bronx. He served as the commanding officer of three successive precincts: Central Park, the 25th Precinct in eastern Harlem, and the 44th Precinct in the western Bronx. He was C.O. of the 25th Precinct during the attacks of September 11th and remembers being proud of the way his fellow officers from all across the department came together to help and protect people during that crisis.

It was as C.O. of the 44th Precinct, one of the busier commands in the city, that Commissioner O'Neill began to think seriously about reforming the NYPD patrol model. The precinct workload in the NYPD had long been divided between patrol officers who answered a steady stream of calls for service, and specialty officers who worked at correcting conditions and community outreach. As Commissioner O'Neill saw it, police departments had been asking their patrol officers to connect with community members for generations without ever giving them the time or the opportunity to do so. He envisioned a model with fewer specialists and more generalist officers, who answered calls, worked at problem-solving and local crime-fighting, and collaborated far more effectively with community members.

Promoted to inspector and then to deputy chief, Commissioner O'Neill moved to the investigative side of the department, serving tours as commanding officer of the Vice Division, the Narcotics Division, and the Fugitive Enforcement Division. He worked in all three divisions to keep cases focused on reducing crime and supporting the priorities of precinct commanders.

In March 2014, he was appointed commanding officer of Police Commissioner William Bratton's office and played a key role in the department's reengineering process, concentrating on operational reforms. As chief of patrol from June 2014, he began the development of neighborhood policing by anchoring officers in sectors and providing them with off-radio time to connect with community members and work at local problem-solving and crime-fighting.

He was appointed chief of department in December 2014, and early on in his term, he helped lead the department through the shock and mourning that followed the assassinations of Detectives Rafael Ramos and WenJian Liu.

Neighborhood policing—which is a crime-fighting plan above all else—has been implemented in more than half of New York City precincts, as well as all of the NYPD Housing Bureau police service areas, and is serving more than three million New Yorkers. It is the largest, best-funded, best-staffed community-policing initiative ever undertaken in the United States. Commissioner O'Neill's reforms are taking hold and will have a far-reaching and positive influence all across New York City.

Commissioner O'Neill grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and was one of seven children. He has two sons, Daniel and Christopher. He is an avid hockey player and motorcyclist.

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Special Guest: Kim Haughton - Multi-Award Winning Irish Photographer

All 100 photos from Kim Haughton's "Portrait of a Century" exhibition of Ireland from 1916 to 2015 told through the faces of its people will be on display.  This is the first time that the entire exhibition has been displayed together in the United States.


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Members and and first time non-members may attend free of charge.

Non-members: $20

Registration open to members and guests.

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If you have any questions, contact us at info@IBONewYork.org.


WE THANK OUR ANNUAL Partners & Sponsors

IBO Sponsor Bank of Ireland

IBO Sponsor Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme

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of New York, Inc.

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