Koury
GOSHEN – Orange County Commissioner of Emergency Service Walter
Koury will retire effective June 30.
He has been commissioner for 12 years following a 30-year career with
the New Windsor Town Police Department. He served as chief for 20 years.
Koury was appointed the county’s first commissioner of Emergency
Services in 2004.
“Walt has served Orange County with dignity and class,” said
County Executive Steven Neuhaus.
Koury was instrumental in the county’s development of the state-of-the-art
Emergency Services Center in the Town of Goshen, which opened in mid-2008.
He worked with the county’s Public Safety and Emergency Service
Legislative Committee to gain approval for $11 million in additional funding
to provide public safety agencies mobile and portable radios. They will
be provided to at least five county departments and to 100 police, fire
and EMS agencies in the county. They are scheduled to be operational next
year.
