John Edward Miles

Honored to have known and worked with John in Safe & Loft. Always a gentleman and great Detective. My condolences to the family.

I had the pleasure of meeting him toward the end of his career in the NYPD but I knew of his many times he responded to hostage/barricade situations. He was a mentor for new members of the HNT and a wise counselor for the team leaders, myself included. Rest in Peace John. Hugh Hugh M. McGowan, Lt. C.O. /NYPD HNT (ret)

John was a great NYPD Detective, Hostage Negotiator and Friend. I worked with him closely during our time in SID (Special Investigations Division). I particularly remember his HNT contributions at the 48 hour situation in Kings County Hospital in 1982 and and very memorably when he and his long time partner Joe Strano joined me on the VZ bridge to successfully talk down a jumper. We were separately on our way home to SI when we came upon the distraught young man. Not for the first time, we...

My grandfather was a brave, smart, kind, thoughtful and endlessly loving man - we will all miss him so much!!

My sympathies to the Miles family. John was a neighborhood icon. After I got on the NYPD we used to talk often. At one point in my NYPD career John recommended me for a position I was interviewing for and I got into the unit. I was also with him at a hostage situation back in the mid 1980s. He was a true professional & someone to be looked up to.