2006 New York Code - Traffic Enforcement By Employees Not Police Officers.

 
    §  14-118.2  Traffic  enforcement by employees not police officers. a.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner may  employ
  persons who shall not be police officers to engage in the performance of
  such duties relating to the enforcement of laws and regulations relating
  to  the  regulating,  directing,  controlling  and  restricting  of  the
  movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic  for  the  facilitation  of
  traffic  and  the  convenience  of  the  public  as  well  as the proper
  protection of human life and health may also be enforced by an  employee
  of  the  police  department who is in a title within the classified city
  civil service pursuant to which such activities  may  be  performed  and
  which title was within the department of transportation on the effective
  date of this section or any successor title thereto.
    b.  Nothing  contained  herein  shall  be  construed  to  entitle such
  employees to the privileges and  benefits  of  police  officers,  or  to
  become members of the police pension fund.