{"id":562219,"date":"2026-02-03T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:43:10","slug":"security-guard-for-nyc-health-and-hospitals-arrested-for-obstructing-nypd-at-brooklyn-psych-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562219\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard for NYC Health and Hospitals arrested for obstructing NYPD at Brooklyn psych ward"},"content":{"rendered":"

A security guard contracted by NYC Health and Hospitals<\/a> was arrested for preventing armed NYPD officers responding to a call for backup from entering the psych ward of a Brooklyn hospital Monday, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

Cops also busted the security guard\u2019s supervisor \u2014 a law enforcement officer employed by the city\u2019s hospital system \u2014 for interfering in the guard\u2019s arrest, sources said.<\/p>\n

Kadeem Alfred, 32, a guard working for a private security outfit contracted by NYCHHC<\/a>, was arrested after he refused to let NYPD officers into the psych ward at Kings County Hospital<\/a> on Clarkson Ave. near E. 37th St. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens around 4:30 a.m., sources said.<\/p>\n

The cops were rushing to assist a fellow officer, who requested backup after a prisoner inside the psych ward began resisting arrest, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Alfred initially refused to allow the officers inside the psych ward with their firearms, but later admitted the cops after his supervisor, NYCHHC Officer Michael Kee, 53, arrived at the scene, according to sources.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if the officers were armed when they entered the psych ward.<\/p>\n

Once inside, police placed Alfred under arrest \u2014 and also cuffed Kee after he tried to intervene on behalf of the guard, said sources.<\/p>\n

Both men were charged with obstruction of governmental administration and were issued desk appearance tickets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a police officer calls for help, absolutely nothing should delay that help from getting there,\u201d Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said. \u201cHospital personnel need to understand that and should make changes to ensure that this scenario doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident follows a standoff between the NYPD and staff at another Brooklyn hospital, NYU Langone Health-Cobble Hill<\/a>, who refused to treat a plainclothes detective until he and two other detectives gave up their weapons last month.<\/p>\n

The detectives felt snubbed by the hospital, which only admitted them after they stashed their weapons in an NYPD vehicle parked outside the medical center.<\/p>\n

Hospital officials later apologized to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, and said police officers are allowed to carry weapons while seeking treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cReps from the hospital apologized to Commissioner Tisch and the NYPD and said that hospital staff had a misunderstanding of their policy,\u201d an NYPD spokeswoman said. \u201cCommissioner Tisch asked that all hospital staff be retrained to ensure that this type of incident never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A security guard contracted by NYC Health and Hospitals was arrested for preventing armed NYPD officers responding to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":562220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,245478,245480,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,88202,245479,48858,245481,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-562219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn-hospital","tag-kadeem-alfred","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-health-and-hospitals","tag-nypd-officers","tag-security-guard","tag-the-psych-ward","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116004168734216232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}