Task Force
The School Safety Division maintains 10 task forces. There is one task force per borough command, and a citywide task force. The duties of the borough task force's are to patrol around schools in the borough to reduce crime and find students who are skipping school or class, provide assistance to school safety agents assigned to schools in the borough when they need additional manpower, assist with details at schools in the borough, and respond to emergencies at schools in the borough where additional manpower is needed. The duties of the citywide task force are to assist the borough task force's, patrol around high crime schools to reduce crime and find students who are skipping school or class, provide assistance to school safety agents assigned to schools when they need additional manpower, assist with details at schools, and respond to emergencies at schools where additional manpower is needed.
There are also two police task forces covering the schools. One covers Manhattan and The Bronx and the other covers Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Each of these task forces has roughly 90 police officers assigned.
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