Governor Addresses 88 New State Troopers Albany, NY (June 9, 2009) - Governor David A. Paterson and New York State Police Superintendent Harry J. Corbitt
today honored 88 new troopers at ceremonies marking the completion of the 197th Session of the Basic School of the New York State Police
Academy. The new troopers will report for field duty on June 23, 2009, and for the following ten weeks will be evaluated under a
field-training program supervised by senior Field Training Officers.
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New Troop G Headquarters Plans Move Forward (Albany, NY - March 13, 2009) - Plans to build a new Troop G Headquarters for the New York State Police continue to move forward. As a result of major deficiencies and the outdated state of the current facility built in Loudonville in 1957, the State Police initiated relocation plans in January of 2003. Legislation authorized the sale of the current Troop G Headquarters property to Siena College in August of 2003, and in June of 2006 the transfer of ownership was executed. State Police anticipate breaking ground for site preparation in June of this year.
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The New York State Violent Crime Analysis Program (NYS VICAP) is
administered by the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Forensic
Investigation Support Services Section.
NYS VICAP is a computer-assisted program that operates in conjunction with the Federal
Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) administered by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
NYS VICAP and VICAP have been developed as investigative aids for all law enforcement
agencies. They link similar patterns of crime from among all reported cases in the government's
database. This is accomplished by analyzing all relevant details of crime including:
victimology, modus operandi, offender information or suspect description, physical or
forensic evidence and suspect behavior exhibited before, during or after the crime.
When apparent similarities or patterns are determined to exist between cases, the
submitting agencies can be notified and the case investigators put in contact with each
other.
The NYS VICAP system is designed to collect, collate and analyze information regarding
the following types of violent crimes that might be serial in nature:
Homicides: all homicides and attempts, solved or unsolved.
Missing Persons: where the circumstances indicate a strong possibility
of foul play and the victim is still missing.
Unidentified: where the manner of death is known or suspected
to be a homicide.
Sexual Assaults: all sexually related assaults, attempted abductions
and "nuisance" offenses where the offender has any potential for being responsible
for past or future crimes.