Lawrence Byrne

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Lawrence Byrne, who served four years as New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for legal affairs, died Dec. 6. He was 61.

Byrne was NYPD deputy commissioner, 2014-2018, and most recently served as director and senior advisor of AlixPartners, Manhattan, 2020, and managing director of Freeh Group International Solutions, Manhattan, 2018-2020.

Cardinal Dolan celebrated the Funeral Mass Dec. 11 at St. James Church in Seaford attended by U.S. Rep. Peter King, who remembered Byrne as an “outstanding federal prosecutor and practicing attorney.”

“He was a first-rate lawyer who never backed down in the line of fire,” King said on his Facebook page. “Larry always worked hard to preserve the memory of his late brother Eddie.”

Eddie Byrne, an NYPD officer, was killed in 1988 while sitting in his patrol car guarding the home of a witness in Queens. President Ronald Reagan shared his condolences in a phone call to the Byrne family and Vice President George H.W. Bush carried Eddie’s badge with him during his 1988 presidential campaign, according to published reports.

Raised on Long Island, Lawrence Byrne graduated from Hofstra University, Hempstead, with a bachelor’s degree in economics, and New York University School of Law, Manhattan, with a juris doctor degree.

His mother, Ann; sons, Patrick, Christopher and Peter; and brothers, Steve and Ken, survive him. His late father, Matthew, served the NYPD for 22 years.

Lawrence Byrne