There\u2019s no way NYPD cops should put themselves in harm\u2019s way by tagging along with Big Apple first lady Rama Duwaji on a risky \u201csocial\u201d trip to the war-torn Middle East, boss of the city\u2019s detective union said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t about politics at all \u2014 it\u2019s not about politics,\u201d NYPD Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro said Wednesday. \u201cThis is about keeping the New York City detectives safe, out of harm\u2019s way. Let them do their job here in New York City. That\u2019s what they\u2019re here for.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a no-fly area. It\u2019s a no-go zone,\u201d Munro added. \u201cWe are not going there.\u201d<\/p>\n
NYPD Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro said cops won\u2019t join the first lady on a family trip. James Messerschmidt for NY Post<\/p>\n
A rep for Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced earlier this week that Duwaji would take her NYPD security<\/a> detail with her when she travels to visit family in the Middle East next month \u2014 only to have police brass shoot down<\/a> the idea on Tuesday.<\/p>\n A red-faced Mamdani blamed the gaffe on \u201cmiscommunication\u201d between City Hall and the NYPD. <\/p>\n Duwaji is scheduled to leave on Sept. 20 for personal trips to Syria and Lebanon, where he has relatives. <\/p>\n But both countries are on the US State Department\u2019s Level 4 \u201cDo Not Travel\u201d list, the nation\u2019s highest security advisory reserved for countries that carry an \u201cextreme risk\u201d of terrorism, civil unrest or crime.<\/p>\n In a statement Tuesday, an NYPD spokesperson said the department \u201cdoes not send officers to countries with level four travel advisories for discretionary reasons not linked to investigative work.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not an investigative trip, and therefore, NYPD personnel will not be traveling there for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Rama Duwaji, the wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is planning a trip to Syria and Lebanon in September. Instagram \/ @ramaduwaji<\/p>\n New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji. The NYPD will not accompany her on her Middle East trip. Getty Images<\/p>\n Munro said Wednesday that perhaps the awkward blunder by the Mamdani administration was due to \u201ca lack of communication,\u201d and added that \u201cmaybe there\u2019s a lack of experience at City Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n The union boss said the department has \u201cliaisons\u201d overseas \u2014 but for police work, not social outings.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a hard enough job here today to do the job here in New York City, with everything going on, with protests, your day-to-day,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was no intent for any of our detectives [to go overseas], and I showed that I was very disheartened if that was even going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no way NYPD cops should put themselves in harm\u2019s way by tagging along with Big Apple first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[93,8981,49,37670,34839,95,933,8983],"class_list":["post-246488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-metro","tag-middle-east","tag-nypd","tag-rama-duwaji","tag-syria","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117083736847111596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}