{"id":322832,"date":"2026-08-17T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322832\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:19:07","slug":"nypd-wont-provide-security-detail-for-mamdanis-wife-on-vacation-trip-to-middle-east-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322832\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD won&#8217;t provide security detail for Mamdani&#8217;s wife on vacation trip to Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/15-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-in-head-inside-new-york-apartment-police-new-york-police-department-bronx-murder-killed-homicide-death-investigation-shooter-suspect-guns-weapons-violence-true-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Police Department<\/a> will not be providing security to Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s wife when she goes on vacation to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Rama Duwaji, Mamdani\u2019s wife, is set to go to Lebanon and Syria to visit family there in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/mamdani-says-nyc-cant-arrest-netanyahu-calls-on-trump-admin-to-join-icc-execute-warrant-federal-government-israel-palestinians-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a report from the New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mamdani\u2019s spokesperson reportedly said that the first lady&#8217;s security detail should go with her.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mamdanis-office-said-nypd-would-accompany-his-wife-middle-east-vacation-cops-say-thats-not-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the NYPD told Fox News<\/a> that police officers would not be going with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NYPD does not send officers to countries with level 4 travel advisories for discretionary reasons such as personal travel,&#8221; a spokesperson for the law enforcement agency told the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD detectives\u2019 association slammed the implication that police detectives should accompany Mamdani\u2019s wife on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our detectives put themselves in harm\u2019s way every day protecting New Yorkers,&#8221; Detectives\u2019 Endowment Association President Scott Munro said. \u201cThe DEA would never remain silent if our members were asked to travel to a dangerous, off-limits foreign country for anything other than a legitimate law-enforcement or intelligence operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that detectives needed to stay in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The New York Police Department will not be providing security to Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-322832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322832","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=322832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}