NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force

The NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force is identified in the record as a participant in the early-2003 questioning of Mohamedou Ould Slahi at Guantánamo. Its documented presence is specific and limited: an NYPD detective was part of an interrogation team, linking a local law-enforcement unit to the wider process of questioning Slahi while he was detained.

Documented Role

An account of the interrogation team identifies an NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force detective among the people involved in questioning Slahi in January 2003. The team also included two FBI agents, identified by pseudonyms in the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General’s report, as well as a military interrogator and a French-speaking translator. The available material places the detective within this particular team; it does not describe the task force’s internal organization or establish a broader institutional role in the detention system.

The January 2003 Interrogation

A related annotation says the detective may have been the NYPD interrogator whom Slahi identified as Tom. The Inspector General’s report describes a detective under that name questioning Slahi about certain phone calls and warning that he could be sent somewhere very bad if he did not explain them. The identification is presented cautiously, so the record supports a possible connection between Tom and the task force, not a definitive identification.

Scope of the Record

The references establish the task force’s presence through an individual detective’s participation in one interrogation context. They do not supply enough information to determine the detective’s identity, the extent of the task force’s involvement in Slahi’s case, or whether it took part in other interrogations. Accordingly, the task force’s significance here lies in this documented intersection between local law enforcement and questioning at Guantánamo, rather than in a fully described organizational history.