Correction Officers Union Head Upset About City Plan To Use Queens Facility For Training
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A union head is up in arms about the city's plan to reopen a Queens detention complex as an overflow training center for new correction officers.
Norman Seabrook, president of the New York City Correction Officer's Benevolent Association, said Wednesday the Kew Gardens facility is dilapidated, too small and has no training equipment.
He added: "It's not air conditioned. The windows, some of them work, some of them don't work. Right now, it's probably about 105 degrees in there on a day like today.
"It's totally, totally unacceptable to us," Seabrook told WCBS 880's Rich Lamb.
Seabrook argued that the city would never subject members of the NYPD or FDNY to such conditions.
"And you can no longer treat correction officers as second-class citizens and expect us to be a part of this reform that you're talking about," he said.