Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police, or MTA Police, is the police force of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority local railroad, or MTA. Officers of the MTA Police are full police officers in New York State and in the state of Connecticut. The force was started in 1998.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police
Abbreviation	MTA Police
Agency overview
Formed	1998
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	New York, New York, USA
Legal jurisdiction	New York and Connecticut
General nature	Local civilian police
Operational structure
Police Officers	646
Director responsible	William Morange
Agency executive	Michael R. Coan, Chief
Parent agency	MTA
Units	List Patrol Highway Patrol Detective Division Inter-agency Counterterrorism Task Force Emergency Services Unit Canine Unit (K-9) Communications Unit Technology & System Development Right of Way Task Force Internal Affairs Bureau
Facilities
Districts	9 District # 1 - Suffolk County, New York District # 2 - Nassau County, New York District # 3 - Queens and Brooklyn Counties of New York District # 4 - Penn Station District # 5 - Grand Central Terminal and 125th Street Station District # 6 - Lower Westchester County and the Bronx, New York District # 7 - Upper Westchester, Dutchess, Rockland, Putnam, and Orange Counties of New York District # 8 - Fairfield and New Haven Counties of Connecticut District # 9 - Richmond County, New York
Website
Official Site

Related pages

• Metropolitan Transportation Authority
• New York City Police Department
• Color of the day (police)

Other websites

• MTA Police Overtime Adding Up
• MTA Police-A Consolidated Force Archived 2005-11-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Request for Information Form
• TransitCop.com Archived 2012-06-19 at the Wayback Machine