Lecci v. Nickerson

Two members of the Nassau County Police Department, officers of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, bring an article 78 proceeding to compel the Commissioner of Police and the County Executive to institute a program of “ rotating days off ” so that members of the department would in turn have days of a weekend free from duty. They allege that the respondents, in failing to institute such a program, have acted arbitrarily and capriciously.

The respondents submit that the police force is divided into IS squads and that the two days in each week in which a patrolman is free of duty depend…