Post by onthejob on Jan 4, 2012 21:56:32 GMT -5
Ex-FBI official to help lead Nassau police
January 4, 2012 by ROBERT BRODSKY / robert.brodsky@newsday.com
New Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Dale has selected the former head of the FBI's Long Island field office as his second in command.
Robert Hart, 57, a Hempstead Town resident, will start with the department on Jan. 9 as an assistant to the commissioner. His salary will be $150,000, county officials said.
Hart, an attorney, recently served as chief of investigations for State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, overseeing 240 civil and criminal investigators.
"Robert was an asset to the FBI, the Attorney General and I'm certain he will be an asset to the residents of Nassau County," said County Executive Edward Mangano. Schneiderman called Hart, "an outstanding law enforcement official who will serve the people of Nassau County with distinction."
But James Carver, head of the Nassau Police Benevolent Association, said the cash-strapped county "should be hiring more cops and not another administrator. It's not something the county needs right now." The union and Mangano have battled for months over proposed labor cuts and the potential closure of two police precincts.
Hart and Dale, who took command of the police department Monday, declined to comment.
Hart spent 32 years with the FBI, managing the Long Island office in Melville from 2003-2008. An anti-gang expert, Hart formed the Long Island Violent Gang Task Force, which worked with the Nassau and Suffolk Police departments, bureau officials said.
Hart led the criminal investigation into the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Belle Harbor, Queens, in 2001, according to his biography. He also served as a command post supervisor for the FBI during the investigations into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
After retiring from the FBI in 2008, Hart and Philip Scala, a former FBI supervisory special agent, formed Pathfinder Consultants International, a Garden City private investigative firm that specializes in fraud investigations. Hart went to work for Schneiderman last year.
Richard Donoghue, former head of the U.S. Attorney's office on Long Island and now a senior vice president with CA Technologies in Islandia, called Hart "extremely competent and a great administrator and leader. If you have a challenge, he is the one guy you want."
January 4, 2012 by ROBERT BRODSKY / robert.brodsky@newsday.com
New Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Dale has selected the former head of the FBI's Long Island field office as his second in command.
Robert Hart, 57, a Hempstead Town resident, will start with the department on Jan. 9 as an assistant to the commissioner. His salary will be $150,000, county officials said.
Hart, an attorney, recently served as chief of investigations for State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, overseeing 240 civil and criminal investigators.
"Robert was an asset to the FBI, the Attorney General and I'm certain he will be an asset to the residents of Nassau County," said County Executive Edward Mangano. Schneiderman called Hart, "an outstanding law enforcement official who will serve the people of Nassau County with distinction."
But James Carver, head of the Nassau Police Benevolent Association, said the cash-strapped county "should be hiring more cops and not another administrator. It's not something the county needs right now." The union and Mangano have battled for months over proposed labor cuts and the potential closure of two police precincts.
Hart and Dale, who took command of the police department Monday, declined to comment.
Hart spent 32 years with the FBI, managing the Long Island office in Melville from 2003-2008. An anti-gang expert, Hart formed the Long Island Violent Gang Task Force, which worked with the Nassau and Suffolk Police departments, bureau officials said.
Hart led the criminal investigation into the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Belle Harbor, Queens, in 2001, according to his biography. He also served as a command post supervisor for the FBI during the investigations into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
After retiring from the FBI in 2008, Hart and Philip Scala, a former FBI supervisory special agent, formed Pathfinder Consultants International, a Garden City private investigative firm that specializes in fraud investigations. Hart went to work for Schneiderman last year.
Richard Donoghue, former head of the U.S. Attorney's office on Long Island and now a senior vice president with CA Technologies in Islandia, called Hart "extremely competent and a great administrator and leader. If you have a challenge, he is the one guy you want."
