John Nikitopoulos

Whereas the village board included funding for a police department staffing and operational study in the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven capital plan, and whereas on 05/28/2026, the village of Croton And Hudson issued a request for proposals f…

Motion by Trustee Simon, second by Trustee Nicholson. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Very good. Now we proceed to our feature presentation, a presentation of certificates of recognition from the New York Conference of Mayors to John Spada in recogniti…

Anyway, just taking us back to where we began this evening, I just wanna say a couple more words about chief Nikitopoulos and and John Spada. And just when you think of and and congratulate them. Forty years for chief Nikitopoulos. When you think abo…

I'm John Nikitopoulos, Croton Point Hudson police chief. Along with me is detective Mark Fielding of this department. We're gonna give you a little presentation on the license plates readers that we currently have, and maybe future sites if you're in…

The body cams, the manager and I have a meeting tomorrow. We're going to try and finalize the policies we have. Once we finalize them, we have to send them back to Lexapol because they're the only ones that can edit what we changed, okay? Once we get…

Yes. But it it goes to a cloud storage for to keep the you know, so cool so we have it for a definite period of time. But, you know, it's it's housed, so we can just access it. So that's our goal hopefully by October 1, we can have everything operati…

WHEREAS, the Village of Croton-on-Hudson has contracted with area tow companies to provide roadside and vehicle towing services on an as-needed basis; and WHEREAS, on April 7, 2026, the Village of Croton-on-Hudson issued a request for proposals for …

Yes. Thank thank you, mayor. So I'll just read the resolution first. Sure. Yep. So whereas the village of Corton And Hudson has contracted with area tow companies to provide roadside and vehicle towing services on an as needed basis, whereas on 04/07…

Whereas the village of Croton-on-Hudson has contracted with area tow companies to provide roadside and vehicle towing services on an as needed basis. Whereas on 04/07/2026, the village of Croton-on-Hudson issued a request for proposals for these towi…

Hello. So chief Nick Atopo, this is just in case anyone doesn't know me. Next to me, I brought officer Nicholas DiMarco. So over the past several weeks, we've been getting complaints about loud music, which has been drive vibrating people's houses an…

would would they charge him? The person lives in Havascob, but apparently he goes to the state park over there. And that's as much as it's maybe I we were hearing that it might be it might be Clarkstown, it might be this might you know, but we were a…

Thank you. And detective Detective showed me some photos of some of the speakers today. What's on that car is small compared to what's on other ones. Wow. Wow. So it's pretty amazing, the the money and the sound and everything else that they put out …

You wanna go in Any other okay. And then the big ticket item we're asking for is the digital the new digital radio system. That is a must. Our radio system is at the end of life. No one uses the analog anymore. We currently use a radio provider that …

So that's a big problem for us. So it is it is a major safety issue. When would these be available to you? Well, I would imagine it's gonna take some time for them to build and put together once we get a purchase order. I'm hoping we can tell them so…

And we still may have to put up a couple of the little towers that we're working on because everything talks to each other. I I I don't know how the digital system actually works, but Yeah. It is the state of the art. It's you know, and we're probabl…

we prepared our annual budget. We we presented it to the village manager. There are some increases in a few things, so I wanted to go over them first just so you're aware. So there are several reasons for the increases. One is gonna be salary contrac…

TLO went up a little bit, but that was last year, so it should be the same this year. Firearms, the outdoor range is the same. Ricky maintenance and licenses are the same. Alarm system is the same. General maintenance has stayed the same. Investigati…

I mean, I think, listen, I think I've asked what I think is at a reasonable amount. I think the study that we're gonna get should show that. You know, listen if I could get another officer in a promotion this year it would certainly help the departme…

WHEREAS the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department has been investigating the implementation of a police department body-warn camera program, and WHEREAS the implementation of a police body-warn camera program has the support of the Village’s Police Adv…

Sure. As we usually do, I'll read the resolution first, and then we'll open it for discussion. Okay? Whereas the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department has been investigating the implementation of a police department body worn camera program, and whereas…

Well, I mean, I just wanted to say that, you know, we have, embarked on this body cam project because of the request from the board and the PAC committee, many years ago with police reform. Over the past several years, we have kept applying for grant…

I'm I mean, these cameras record when they're put on. They they will automatically go on if the taser's drawn. That's why we wanna get the axe on the same one. We'll also have a switch on the weapon holster. They'll come on then. The body cameras can…

we go. So I was asked to come here tonight and give you a little presentation. I, I think I wrote up a report, and I think, the village manager sent it to you all. But I'll basically go over it, just for anybody who's watching. So a lot of things hap…

we may have to come up with additional money because that grant was several years ago, and everything has gone up. So, but we're gonna try and find out what we can afford and what we can do with the money we have. And, also, like I said, the operatio…

And it had a full tank when we brought it there. So, it was used quite a bit. So, also, I'd like to discuss implementing a program to recognize, and reward, exceptional service by officers of department such as recognizing should include, and contrib…

Police Advisory Committee Minutes January 8, 2026, 6:30 pm Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building Attendance: Carolyn Whiting, John Nikitopoulos, Officer Edwin Jandres (phone), Teri Lukin, Miles Kafka, lan Murtaugh, and Trustee liaison Nora Nichol…

So, Nick, come on now. Listen. It's it's an honor to be here. It's an honor to represent all the men in the police department. The police department does