North Hempstead Appoints New Commissioner Of Public Safety

The Town of North Hempstead recently appointed Shawn Brown as the new Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety.

Brown has been serving in the role of Acting Public Safety Commissioner since February 2016. He first joined the Department of Public Safety in 1999 and has worked for the Town of North Hempstead for 20 years.

“We are very excited to have Shawn serve as our Commissioner of Public Safety,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said in a press release. “He brings along his institutional knowledge about the Town, along with his experiences serving as the Deputy Commissioner and Acting Commissioner of Public Safety. His attention to detail and strong work ethic will serve him well in this position.”

The Department of Public Safety oversees seven divisions, including the Town’s Animal Shelter, Code Enforcement, Harbor Patrol, Emergency Management, Parking Enforcement and the Port Washington Parking District. The Department of Public Safety is also responsible for enforcing the Town’s ordinances and regulations in the unincorporated villages.

As Deputy Commissioner, Brown worked to improve the Public Safety’s productivity, including mandating all Code Inspectors to wear a uniform, quantifying pro-active service requests, expanding Code Enforcement’s hours of operation to seven days a week as well as integrating the Department more closely with the 311 Call Center.

In 2012, the International Code Council recognized Brown’s work and rewarded him as a Match Scholarship recipient at their Annual Meeting in Portland Oregon.

Shawn has been a “Big Brother” with Big Brother Big Sisters, Past President of the New York Pitt Club and last year a U10 boys’ soccer coach for the Syosset Soccer Club. He also founded Samba 360, nonprofit charity that distributes new and gently used sports equipment to disadvantaged children, as well as provide soccer and chess programs to economically distressed communities.

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