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Changes under way at NYPD under Bratton

Changes are afoot at the NYPD under new Commissioner Bill Bratton.

We’re told the Hate Crimes Unit, investigating the recent spate of “knockout” attacks, was yesterday moved out of its 11th-floor office at One Police Plaza and relocated to Avenue C.

Sources say it could be to make room for new deputy commissioners, but also because Deputy Chief Michael Osgood, the city’s top official investigating sex and hate crimes, oversees both the Hate Crimes Task Force and the Special Victims Division, which is already housed on Avenue C.

NYPD spokesman Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis said, “The Hate Crimes Task Force is being relocated temporarily . . . it is not being disbanded or reduced. This is being done as part of a multi-unit resource reallocation within the Department.”