Committee To Examine Volunteer Police Program
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The police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, yesterday announced the creation of a committee to examine recruitment, equipment, and other issues surrounding auxiliary police officers in New York City.
The new committee, which has 90 days to report back to Mr. Kelly, comes less than a week after two auxiliary officers, Yevgeniy Marshalik, 19, and Nicholas Pekearo, 28, were gunned down by a man in Greenwich Village.
Like all auxiliary officers they patrolled in uniform but had no guns or bullet proofs vests.
The committee will include several top police officials and the head of the auxiliary police union.
