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I saw an unusual sight today, a large funeral procession in New Hyde Park for a young member of an EMS unit in Rockland County. Unusual because when they left the funeral home in NHP, NYPD motorcycle cops were stopping traffic in Nassau County as the procession headed to Queens. Technically does NYPD have any authority to stop traffic outside of NYC? I guess there have been many other funerals where a police escort traveled between NYC and other boroughs but I haven’t witnessed many so I don’t know the protocol. It just seemed like Nassau County Police should have been there as well if not performing the traffic control.
The other odd thing was when the procession was arriving, there were over 20 emergency vehicles in the procession, mostly ambulances, speeding with their sirens blaring and going around traffic as if they were responding to an emergency. I thought it must have been some high level official but when I checked the funeral home website it was a young guy who died from unknown causes while working at EMS in Rockland County.
So um...okay. Most people dont have a problem letting a funeral procession pass, not breaking the line, even when there is not a Police escort for the departed.
Shouldnt matter tbh. Everyone deserves respect on their last ride, even more so when they are young because such a death - although not unheard of - is usually not expected.
I didn’t say I had a problem with letting a funeral procession pass and definitely didn’t say a procession without a police escort should be interrupted. My question was about NYPD doing traffic control in Nassau County. I do think it was inappropriate for 20+ emergency vehicles speeding with sirens blaring and making right turns from the left turn lanes as if they were responding to an emergency, which they were not.
maybe his residence was in LI and was and fdny in nyc. sometimes for some services they would start at the residence and go to their servicing station. and they do a roll call. vice versa so its logical for the nypd patrols to start and finish? maybe?
I will go out on a limb and say it is more of a courtesy type thing and then it would have been handed off to NYPD once they crossed the city line anyway. I will also bet that Nassau PD would only be too happy to hand it off as that removes officers and cars from duties. The second part is indeed disturbing and one can only imagine that it was an accident waiting to happen and they are fortunate that nothing happened.
I saw an unusual sight today, a large funeral procession in New Hyde Park for a young member of an EMS unit in Rockland County. Unusual because when they left the funeral home in NHP, NYPD motorcycle cops were stopping traffic in Nassau County as the procession headed to Queens. Technically does NYPD have any authority to stop traffic outside of NYC? I guess there have been many other funerals where a police escort traveled between NYC and other boroughs but I haven’t witnessed many so I don’t know the protocol. It just seemed like Nassau County Police should have been there as well if not performing the traffic control.
The other odd thing was when the procession was arriving, there were over 20 emergency vehicles in the procession, mostly ambulances, speeding with their sirens blaring and going around traffic as if they were responding to an emergency. I thought it must have been some high level official but when I checked the funeral home website it was a young guy who died from unknown causes while working at EMS in Rockland County.
Ridiculous thread.
They notify Nassau in advance of the funeral and are granted permission to do traffic control. This is very common for funerals as the first responder who passed away was a city employee therefore the city conducts the ceremony.
I will go out on a limb and say it is more of a courtesy type thing and then it would have been handed off to NYPD once they crossed the city line anyway. I will also bet that Nassau PD would only be too happy to hand it off as that removes officers and cars from duties. The second part is indeed disturbing and one can only imagine that it was an accident waiting to happen and they are fortunate that nothing happened.
Yes it was probably a courtesy thing but it just seemed strange to see NYPD exerting their authority in Nassau County. After they stopped traffic, a couple of NYPD motorcycle cops roared down Hillside Avenue at about 60 mph. Funerals should be dignified and this was not especially when they emergency vehicles were traveling to the funeral home. I was standing on Hillside Avenue and heard sirens and saw all these emergency vehicles with lights and sirens on racing east and at Lakeville Road traffic was stopped at the light so the convoy went into the left turn lanes and turned right onto Lakeville around the stopped traffic. They didn’t have a police escort going to the funeral home and used their emergency lights and sirens instead. That is against NY state policy for non-emergency situations:
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Non-emergency Operations - anytime an EMS response vehicle is out of the station on an assignment other than an emergency run, shall be considered to be a routine operation. All routine operations will be considered non-emergency and shall be made using headlights only - no light bars, beacons, corner or grill flashers or sirens shall be used. During a non-emergency operation, the ambulance shall be driven in a safe manner and is not authorized to use any emergency vehicle privileges as provided for in the V&T Law.
Yes it was probably a courtesy thing but it just seemed strange to see NYPD exerting their authority in Nassau County. After they stopped traffic, a couple of NYPD motorcycle cops roared down Hillside Avenue at about 60 mph. Funerals should be dignified and this was not especially when they emergency vehicles were traveling to the funeral home. I was standing on Hillside Avenue and heard sirens and saw all these emergency vehicles with lights and sirens on racing east and at Lakeville Road traffic was stopped at the light so the convoy went into the left turn lanes and turned right onto Lakeville around the stopped traffic. They didn’t have a police escort going to the funeral home and used their emergency lights and sirens instead. That is against NY state policy for non-emergency situations:
You and I are both getting old. Did you recall seeing some rapper's funeral in Brooklyn earlier this year? No disrespect meant by not knowing the name, rap is not my thing. He was mourned at the Barclays Center and the "hearse" was a fully jacked up F 150 with tires that were like those on a tractor and there was something about him across the doors. I don't know, nothing says dignified better than that!!! A standard hearse just doesn't do it with the same panache. Maybe, the glass carriage hearse was already booked.
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