About Vito Spano
Retired Deputy Inspector Vito Spano has a long NYPD history of bossing
people around. In eighteen years he's been in command of the Brooklyn
Special Victims Squad, the Queens 105 Detective Squad, the Queens Robbery
Squad and Queens Special Victims Squad, he was the Executive Officer of
the Midtown South Precinct, then a Commanding Officer in the Internal
Affairs Bureau, then Executive Officer of Brooklyn's 83 Precinct, and
following that, Detective Investigative Coordinator for Brooklyn North,
Detective and Narcotic Operations, and commander of the Brooklyn Gang
Squad.
Vito Spano first joined the NYPD in 1982. In August 2001, Spano was
assigned as Commanding Officer of the Cold Case Squad, and in November
2001, he was promoted to Deputy Inspector (that's one rank above captain).
During eighteen years of management and supervisory positions with the New
York City Police Department, Spano was involved in the reduction of
gang-related violence, overall violent crime in New York City, corruption
investigations among Police Officers, and he was instrumental in the
implementation of innovative practices in handling Special Category Crime
Victims (Abused Children, Sexual Assault Victims, Elderly Victims).
Spano now works at the Office of New York State Attorney General under
Eliot Spitzer, as the Chief Investigator for Medicaid Fraud Control Unit,
and lectures to law enforcement on a variety of subjects including serial
murderers, and child abduction.
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