Two high-ranking NYPD officials, including the department’s top lawyer, have quietly retired Andrew Schaffer, deputy commissione
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Two high-ranking NYPD officials, including the department’s top lawyer, have quietly retired
Andrew Schaffer, deputy commissioner of legal matters, and Edward Allocco, NYPD’s deputy commissioner of management and budget have both retired.
BY JOE KEMP / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2012, 12:30 AM
Two high-ranking NYPD officials, including the department’s top lawyer, have quietly retired, the Daily News has learned.
Andrew Schaffer, deputy commissioner of legal matters, stepped away from his post on Nov. 30, officials said.
One of Schaffer’s chief responsibilities was making sure police initiatives — some of them controversial — fell within constitutional guidelines. The policies reviewed by his office include the stop-and-frisk initiative and the so-called Muslim surveillance program.
The Harvard-trained lawyer helped defend the NYPD’s anti-terror program labeled spying by a series of investigative reports by the Associated Press. More recently, NYPD brass — with Schaffer’s guidance — restructured stop-and-frisk training guidelines.
Schaffer, 70, a former prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, was appointed by the NYPD in 2005. He’s an adjunct professor at New York University, officials said.
It was not clear why he decided to leave his $199,984-a-year job with the NYPD. He hasn’t been replaced.
Schaffer’s departure comes after Edward Allocco retired from his job as the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of management and budget. The longtime bean counter, who oversaw the NYPD’s $4.6 billion budget, held the post since he was appointed in 2000.
Allocco, 66, made $195,480 a year. He retired last month.
The NYPD has 16 deputy commissioner positions.
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