a warning over Huawei's products, saying that Huawei represented a potential national security threat to the country's critical infrastructure. Huawei has categorically rejected the allegations.

On February 8, media outlets including The New York Times reported that Huawei had sent a letter to the head of NUKIB asking for the warning to be rescinded.

The New York Times report, which included no comment from Huawei, described the letter as a "threat", but Partyka described it as a way of communication.

"Huawei has sent a letter to NUKIB as we were trying to contact (them) to arrange a meeting to discuss the issue of the warning. Instead of a meeting, they prefer written communication, therefore we are communicating via letters," Partyka wrote in an email on Thursday morning after being contacted byCuts to Sheriff's Department put county at risk

7:28 PM,
Dec. 1, 2012

In 2010, Barbara Shields greets Shields, the horse named after her husband, Robert Shields, a deputy who died earlier that year, as Garrett Clapp from the Rockland County Sheriff's department stands by.

Written by

Carl S. Wright

Any curtailment of the Sheriff's Department as proposed in the 2013 Rockland County budget would place all Rockland County residents at risk. No one wishes to face emergencies and threats with fewer resources in the future.

There is only one police agency at the county level, and that is the Rockland Sheriff's Department. The office of sheriff is charged with many duties and responsibilities. It operates the jail, patrols waterways and highways, has a Bureau of Criminal Identification, has a computer crimes unit, protects county