846*2 - Programs for the aging.
* § 846. Programs for the aging. 1. The division, in consultation with the state office for the aging, shall take all necessary and appropriate measures to develop, plan, provide, and implement programs for the protection of persons aged sixty and over, hereafter referred to in this section as elderly persons, from situations and criminal acts which threaten their safety, security, and property, within the resources available to such agencies for such purposes. 2. Pursuant to the requirements of subdivision one of this section, the division, in consultation with the municipal police training council and the New York state committee for the coordination of police services for the elderly, shall develop an in-service training program, designed to address the problems associated with the investigation of crimes against elderly persons, and to reduce the criminal victimization of the elderly and issue an appropriate certificate to such officers attesting to their satisfactory completion of such special training program. * NB There are 2 § 846's