{"id":19177,"date":"2025-10-27T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19177\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:16:13","slug":"nypd-unveils-new-5-8m-special-victims-unit-facility-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19177\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD unveils new $5.8M Special Victims Unit facility in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD unveiled a new $5.8 million Special Victims Unit facility in the Bronx on Monday, designed to boost investigations into sexual assault cases and offer more support to survivors of such crimes. <\/p>\n<p>The facility, located at 188 West 230th\u00a0St., will now house the Bronx District Attorney\u2019s Office, Safe Horizon, Bronx Adult Special Victims Squad, and the Special Victims Major Case squad to promote collaboration, the NYPD announced.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37501817\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/woman-dressed-purple-bx-district-114314264.jpg\" alt=\"Bx District attorney Darcel Clark and Deputy chief Carlos Ortiz at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.\" class=\"wp-image-37501817\"  \/>The NYPD unveiled a new $5.8 million Special Victims Unit facility in the Bronx on Monday, designed to boost investigations and offer support to survivors of sexual assault. TOMAS E. GASTON<\/p>\n<p>Safe Horizon, which offers survivors a slew of safety resources, does not have offices inside the Bronx SVU facility located in the 41st Precinct on Simpson Street.<\/p>\n<p>The old building earned the moniker \u201cFort Apache\u201d due to the high crime rates in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The new state-of-the-art facility will have several trauma-informed spaces to prioritize the well-being of sexual assault survivors, including a lactating room, a stress reduction room, trauma-informed interview rooms, and a child-friendly area, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, the Bronx Special Victims Unit operated out of the old apache. That building carries a long history in the New York City police, but it was never designed for the deeply sensitive work that was done by our team,\u201d First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the new facility Monday. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37501795\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/scene-ribbon-cutting-ceremony-new-114314258.jpg\" alt=\"The Broadway Crossing building at 188 W 230th St in the Bronx, with two police officers standing outside.\" class=\"wp-image-37501795\"  \/>It\u2019s unclear when the new facility will become fully operational, but Chief of Special Victims Carlos Ortiz expects it to be \u201csoon.\u201d TOMAS E. GASTON<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Special Victims Detectives are the best in the world at what they do. But even the greatest investigators need the right tools and the right environment to deliver justice to survivors. This new facility ensures they will have exactly that,\u201d Kinsella added. <\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s Special Victims Unit is comprised of over 300 investigators tasked with investigating sexual violence cases. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when the facility will become fully operational, but Chief of Special Victims Carlos Ortiz expects it to be \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis facility is a symbol of compassion. When victims who [have] recently been traumatized walk through these doors, they will find a calm and peaceful place that they can talk. And really be trauma-focused to understand what really happened to them,\u201d said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what it was like over there at Simpson Street \u2026. It\u2019s not the environment that\u2019s needed for vulnerable victims such as these,\u201d Clark said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD unveiled a new $5.8 million Special Victims Unit facility in the Bronx on Monday, designed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,103,5161,8881,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-19177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nypd","14":"tag-sexual-assaults","15":"tag-svu","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}