The NYPD will intensify its community-policing efforts with a pilot program that will have patrol officers take a break from answering 911 calls for a third of their shifts and spend that time talking with community residents and solving problems, police officials told the City Council last week.
The program, which is expected to begin next month at two precincts in upper Manhattan and two in the Rockaways, will divide each precinct into three or four neighborhood sectors.
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