Squad 6

Squad 6 oversees the Department of Sanitation (DSNY), Fire Department (FDNY), Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), Emergency Management (NYCEM), and Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB). Squad 6 investigations have resulted in: a public report on the 2023 altercation involving a former Mayoral senior advisor; the arrest, conviction and incarceration of two former high-ranking FDNY officials in the Bureau of Fire Prevention for accepting bribes in return for providing expedited plan reviews and priority inspections; charges against a man for possessing dozens of stolen encrypted two-way radios from DSNY garbage trucks; and the guilty plea of an EMT to stealing cash from a DOI undercover investigator posing as an ill patient .

Squad 6 Reports

• February 20, 2025: Investigation into the October 2023 Physical Altercation Involving Former Senior Advisor to the Mayor for Public Safety 

• October 21, 2014: Investigation into Significant Delay in Dispatching an Ambulance to a Queens Fatal Fire in 2014

• December 19, 2013: Report Regarding the Emergency Response to Accident Involving Ariel Russo and the City's 911 System

• June 3, 2011: Investigation into Allegations of Possible Slowdown by Department of Sanitation During Blizzard of December 2010

• June 19, 2009: Investigation of Administrative Issues Relating to the Fatal Fire of August 18, 2007 at 130 Liberty Street

• June 26, 2007: DOI's Examination of Improper Disposal of Scrap Metal and Environmental Hazardous Materials by New York City Sanitation Workers

• May 4, 2007: Taxi and Limousine Commission Medallion Auction Report

• January 31, 2007: Report on the Use by FDNY Members of Bogus Degrees Issued by St. Regis University

• January 31, 2007: Exhibits for the Bogus Degrees Report

• December 11, 2006: DOI's Investigation of Light Duty Abuse by Firefighter John Mayo

• February 1, 2006: The Department of Investigation's Investigation into the Activities of FDNY Assistant Commissioner John Clair and FDNY Contractor ScanHealth, Inc

• February 25, 2005: The Department of Investigation's Examination of Allegations of Sexual Misconduct at FDNY Engine Company 75/ Ladder Company 33/ Battalion 19 in the Bronx

• February 25, 2005: Exhibits for Examination of Allegations of Sexual Misconduct at FDNY Engine Company 75/ Ladder Company 33/ Battalion 19 Report

• March 24, 2004: The Department of Investigation's Examination of the Circumstances Surrounding the Assault of a Firefighter and Subsequent Cover-up at the New York City Fire Department Engine Company 151/Ladder Company 76 on Staten Island