FROM NY POST: It’s the ‘finest’ Washington Square Park has looked in a long time.
The NYPD flooded the Greenwich Village landmark with 68 additional cops Friday — in a 24/7 crackdown aimed at vanquishing junkies from the beleaguered space, which dealers and addicts alike turned into a veritable narcotics supercenter.
Thirty police officers will now be patrolling the park on foot by day, during a first shift from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with another 30 coming in for an evening shift from 4pm to midnight. An additional eight cover a night shift from midnight to 8 a.m. — all drawn from other precincts.
Officers were posted at every park corner, entrance, and fountain, and an NYPD mobile command center was set up by the park’s iconic arch on Washington Square North.
“My goal is to kick them out of the Sixth Precinct entirely,” commanding officer Capt. Nicholas D. Minor, told a group of grateful residents. “Let’s get them out of there.”
Minor said that in addition to the 68 officers assigned to the park, nine commanders will join the operation, including a lieutenant and three sergeants for each of the morning and afternoon shifts, and a sergeant for the night shift.
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