a United States Army training location from 1917 to 1919, during World War I, when it was used by the 105th and 108th Infantry Regiments. It became parkland in the 1920s, but was seldom utilized. Between 1930 and 1936, the southern tip of the peninsula was used by the New York City Police Academy for summer training and explosives detonation. It was also part of Camp Mulrooney, a summer camp for the NYPD, and was used in that sense until 1936. In 1941, during World War II, the U.S. Department of War began to use the area as a Navy base. The Army used Rodman's Neck again in the 1950s during the Cold War, building a radar fire control center there. In 1959, the peninsula's operation was transferred to the NYPD who built the current firing range at the peninsula's southern tip. Early signs at the entrance said, "NYPD Pistol Range". In 1976, one NYPD Officer was killed and another was badly injured in The Pit when a bomb went off accidentally. NYPD firing range A 54-acre police training facility is operated by the NYPD Firearms & Tactics Section and is used for handgun and rifle practice and qualification by the NYPD, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fire Department Fire Marshals, Correction Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and training probationary police officers, as well as for antiterrorist, disorder control, Emergency Service Units, and Organized Crime Control Bureau training. The base has seven rifle ranges with a 230 total firing points for trainees. The base has a school with lecture hall and seven classrooms with instructors. The base also has a training area designed to look like a city neighborhood for practical training exercises. It has one of the world's largest police armories and a firearms machine shop for maintenance and experimental weapons development. The grounds include mock buildings called Urban Training Center/Tactical Village and Tactics House used for urban training scenarios, and a FireArms Training Simulator building including an interactive video simulator that was all paid for by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There is also a specially equipped vehicle armed for disorder control nicknamed "The War Wagon" in case of rioting. The base was used during the 1960s by the National Guard to train riot troops and was an emergency base of operations during the September 11, 2001 attacks. This area is restricted for police and military use only.