1. 53 fire battalions (Including the Rescue/Special Operations Battalion, the Safety Battalion, the Marine Battalion, and the Haz-Mat. Battalion). This equates to approximately 14,000 uniformed firefighters and EMT's.
2. 10 police bureaus (the police department equivalent of battalions) consisting of 35,000 uniformed and plan clothes officers and another 10,000 civilian employees.
3. 12 sanitation bureaus consisting of 7,200 uniformed employees and 2,000 civilian employees.
4. Although not divided into battalions, the NYC Department of Environmental Protection has 6,000 uniformed and civilian employees.
She is good for NYC”.....I left the state in 1980
It has been down hill for fifty years