The annual Auxiliary Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York Memorial Service will be held on Sunday April 11, 2010. This year the service will be held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan.
Every year many Auxiliary and Reserve units come from around the United States and even abroad to pay respects to the Auxiliary Police that were killed in the Line of Duty (LOD), killed while coming to the aid of others even when not in uniform and those that died in the last year. Although the Memorial Service is sponsored by the NYC Auxiliary Police Benevolent Association, any Auxiliary or Reserve Officer may be honored.
We will be honoring our own late Lt. Murray Kurzman by having a candle lit in his name.
It is both heart-warming and gratifying to see so many fellow volunteers coming together, looking their finest in full dress uniforms. The many hundreds of participants will march into the Church where the memorial service will be held. The service is always beautiful and the families of the fallen or deceased officers are truly taken by the global support.
It is hard to explain just how important and exciting the Memorial Service is. All Long Beach Auxiliary Police Officers are urged to attend. We will muster at Auxiliary Headquarters and will drive our patrol vehicles into Manhattan. As in the past years, our ride home may be under police escort. Let’s have a very impressive showing of our fine Long Beach Auxiliary Police officers.
There was a General Meeting for all uniform and probationary officers. A lot of important information and heads up on upcoming events were discussed. Any officers that missed the meeting should speak with their night supervisor for any updates.
The City 
of Long Beach Recreation Department’s Annual Snowflake Run was held on February 14, 2010.
It started and ended at St. Ignatious Catholic School at West Broadway and New York Avenue (unlike in the past at Lindell School which is under renovations).
The Snowflake Run is always a fun winter event in which the community can be more active in an otherwise very quiet and slow season.
LONG BEACH POLAR BEAR CLUB Super Bowl Sunday Splash is an annual event that started in 1998. All proceeds go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Since its inception, the Long Beach Polar Bears and their many supporters have been able to grant many wishes.
This year the event was held on Super Bowl Sunday February 7, 2010 and officially took place at Riverside Boulevard at 1:00 PM.
To say that the growth and notoriety of the Long Beach Polar Bears has been amazing is definitely understated. In 2001 they were able to raise $12,000 and grant two wishes. This doubled the next year and has continued to grow exponentially since. In 2008, with an incredibly huge turnout, the Long Beach Polar Bears raised $270,000 and granted 35 wishes. In 2009 The Long Beach Polar Bears broke a Guinness World Record. Officials from Guinness were on hand to asses the number of folks that turned out for this important event.
To learn more about the Polar Bears, to register for future Super Bowl Splashes, to buy apparel or to make a direct donation to the Make-A-Wish foundation, visit: http://www.longbeachpolarbears.org/
Not only do many participants show up, but many many onlookers and cheering supporters show up as well. It is amazing to see many thousands of people convening on the beach on a winter morning.
This is always a major event for the Long Beach Auxiliary Police. Given the many thousands of people that show up, we are counted upon to provide necessary traffic and pedestrian control and well as directing vehicle parking. This is an ALL HANDS event. Given the relatively slow season for special event training, uniformed and especially probationary officers are always urged to get and maintain necessary training by participating in the somewhat rare winter season events.
There were many pedestrians and vehicles on the road. Traffic jammed quickly as thousands of participants and supporters headed to Broadway and Riverside Boulevard. After the event, the traffic conditions continued, but in reverse. Fortunately all who came went home safely.
The “March for a King” started at 11:30AM at Laurelton Boulevard and Park Avenue and headed East on Park Avenue to Riverside Boulevard and then North to the MLK Center on Riverside Boulevard where a celebration honoring Dr. King followed.
Due to traffic control needs, the Auxiliary Police are asked to assist with this event. The LBAPD provides both traffic and pedestrian control to assure that the March will be safely conducted.
We got together a crack team to detail our vehicles. This is important as our vehicles are often the first impression that our fine unit makes. We also gave headquarters similar attention!
As always a tasty lunch was served. We appreciate the family members (of all ages!) and friends that came to help out!
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A Long Beach tradition, the Turkey Trot is the last run of the fall season. Starting out on the the boardwalk, the Turkey Trot is actually two races in one. The first race is a one mile shortened version for kids. It is followed by the 10k run for adults. Winners went home with Thanksgiving turkeys!
The race tends to spread out quite a bit and we rely on a lot of resources to handle the posts. In total, almost fifty intersections will be crossed by the runners. This include crossing Park Avenue, Beech Street and Broadway twice. The bicycle patrol waslactive in this event.
Along with the Good Shepard Hospice, the Long Beach Auxiliary Police collected toys for this holiday season for children who have lost a parent or a loved one.
We greatly appreciate all of the people who participated in this heartfelt event by donating unwrapped gifts of $5 - $10 (toys, clothing, accessories, etc.) for a boy or girl between the ages of 5 to 17 years old.
The Auxiliary Police delivered the gifts to the children on December 5, 2009.
Your generosity certainly put smiles on the faces of children that were missing that someone special during the holiday season.
Five Long Beach Auxiliary Police officers were among the thirty-two graduates of the Nassau County Auxiliary Police Academy. This intensive and impressive training spanned 26 weeks and offered phenomenal resources, experience and training. Long Beach Police Department and Auxiliary Police attended as a unit to both congratulate our members and meet and chat with our brethren in the County. Family and friends of the graduates were also proudly present. The ceremony was followed by celebratory meal.
We are all immensely proud of our graduates who now join the ranks of many other LBAPD officers who committed themselves to these six months of training and to our community-at-large. A job well done and an amazing representation of and testament to the high standards that the Long Beach Auxiliary Police Department has maintained for over 50 years!
This year’s Halloween fell out on a Saturday, and was undoubtedly a much busier than usual night in the City given the mild weather, Daylight Savings Time still in effect and no school the following day.
On one hand, this meant that more young kids than usual were walking around even later and crossing the streets in the dark. On the other hand, this can often mean more pranks and unfortunate misdeeds.
The Auxiliary Police had a special patrol with all of our vehicles on the road serving as the Eyes and Ears to the Long Beach Police Department and our community-at-large. We have learned that with a greater police presence that our children will be safer and property will be better protected.