Mayor raises concern about police notification after attempted Crabapple Road break‑in; board to seek meeting with 6th Precinct

The Flower Hill mayor told trustees March 2 that an attempted break‑in on Crabapple Road last weekend had not been communicated to village officials by the 6th Precinct, prompting concern about the department's incident‑notification practices.

"When the incident occurred, the patrol car was on the other half of the village," the Mayor said, describing patrol timing after a resident's report. The mayor said she only learned of the attempted break‑in from a county contact and that the village should have been notified sooner: "They should have informed you that there was an incident." She said the village used to receive police reports and that in recent months those reports have been limited mainly to traffic matters.

The mayor noted a recent round of county retirement offers among senior officers and said the county has replaced "a large chunk of the top brass of the Nassau County Police Department," adding that a new commanding officer for the 6th Precinct, Mark Vitale, is in place. The mayor said she will invite the new commanding officer and the precinct's second‑in‑command to meet with village officials in the coming weeks to discuss improved data and notification sharing.

Trustees expressed support for outreach; the mayor framed the meeting as an effort to strengthen coordination rather than assign blame. The board did not take formal action at the meeting beyond the mayor's pledge to request the meeting and follow up with the precinct.