Nassau Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey and about 44 of the county’s 50 top cops ranked captain or higher had reservations at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk this weekend. They weren’t going for the beach or the spa, but for a two-day management conference arranged by Mulvey as a morale-building effort. Appointed commissioner ten months ago, Mulvey said
Friday he hoped the conference would help his managers understand his goals of department-wide efficiency and teamwork.
Mulvey was to open the conference at 10 a.m. Saturday, with work session until 7 p.m. and dinner at 8. After an 8 a.m. breakfast Sunday, Labor Arbitrator Martin Scheinman was to lead a two-hour discussion. “An overnight (conference) kind of fosters everyone to participate,” Mulvey said. “You kind of get the big-picture perspective when you have an off-site conference.”
The $10,000 cost for lodging, meals and conference facilities were paid from the police department’s forfeiture funds, Mulvey said. “There is no relaxation component; no fishing, no golf, no alcohol paid for,” he said. “I have great expectations that we’ll air out all of the issues and we’ll come away from this as better leaders, better managers...”
Celeste Hadrick