Several rows of uniformed employees, smiling and saying, "How are you today?"
But since then, the program has created confusion and dissension in the ranks of the state's 35,000 uniformed employees.
Sanitation has 13,000 employees - 3,900 civilian and 8,900 uniformed.
But this week, the department, with its 2,500 uniformed and civilian employees, became a bureau in the department.
For one thing, police officers are already in arbitration seeking a raise well above that offered to other uniformed employees.
The Police Department has nearly 50,000 uniformed and civilian employees and a $2.3 billion budget.
As of 2005 the network has 326 employees, including 319 uniformed employees.
There are 350 civilian and uniformed employees at the jail.
A uniformed employee of the airline came to work last year wearing a cross on a chain over her uniform.
The first uniformed employees usually arrive around 1 o'clock.