New York City Department of Sanitation

The New York City Department of Sanitation, or DSNY short is an urban service company in the field of waste management, responsible for garbage collection, recycling, street cleaning and snow removal of the City of New York, United States. The employees are uniformed forces as part of unionized sanitation workers (Local 831 of the Teamsters USA) from New York City. Like most of the uniformed forces of New York, they also have a nickname: New York's Strongest (New York's Strongest ). The Worth of Street section between Centre and Baxter Street in downtown Manhattan called in their honor Avenue of the Strongest.

The New York City Department of Sanitation is the largest city cleaning in the world, with 7,200 uniformed garbage drivers and supervisors, 2,041 civilian employees, 2,230 trucks, 275 specialized trucks, 450 street sweepers, 365 salt and sand spreaders, 298 front - loaders, 2,360 support vehicles and moved more than 12,000 tons of residential and commercial waste and recyclables per day. Under Commissioner John J. Doherty New York's streets are currently said to be the cleanest streets for more than 30 years.

Company History

DSNY was founded in 1881 as the Department of Street Cleaning. One of the first Commissioner of the Division, Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., was a pioneer in current practices for currently in things like recycling, street cleaning and a special uniformed staff for urban cleaning and waste collection. Since 1 August 2013 has been raised as a 3- star Chief for the first time in the history of the Department of a woman in this rank with Shari Pardini.

Sovereign duties

The New York City Department of Sanitation has its own police force, which is composed of four specialized units:

  • Uniformed Sanitation Police Force
  • Illegal Dumping Task Force
  • Permit and Inspection Unit
  • Environmental Police Unit

Among them are uniformed and undercover investigators who also provide the rules and laws on waste and sewage to the state and municipal traffic and criminal law in the five boroughs of New York City validity.

DSNY Officer are NYS ( Peace Officer ) and certified by the NYS Municipal Training Council. DSNY officer may carry a firearm, using handcuffs and make, with the approval of the NYPD arrests while on duty. Furthermore, they are entitled to carry out their duties, if necessary, use physical and deadly force (violence sovereignty ). The police forces use for their work marked patrol car and civilian vehicles.

Gallery

Street cleaners to collect garbage in the 172nd Street

A typical New Yorker waste container

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