The campus has high-rise dormitories, a hospital, a fire department, an Internet cafe and even restaurants and bank branches.
Since 2004, Mr. Esposto has been the lone investigator in the department's Internet crimes against children unit.
Indeed, a large proportion of Tor's funding comes – albeit indirectly – from the US state department's internet freedom budget.
"Given the information that comes from the state department about internet freedom, it would be hard to justify," Segal said.
"As far as I know, we haven't received applications yet," he said, adding that applications are available on the department's Internet site, at www.nyc.gov/dep, and at all department borough offices.
The department's Internet Policy Task Force, in a report released on Thursday, said the "Privacy Bill of Rights" would increase transparency on how user information was collected online, place limits on the use of consumer data by companies and promote the use of audits and other forms of enforcement to increase accountability.
In May 2012, Douglas County Sheriff's detectives searched Andersen's Larkspur home as part of an ongoing investigation by the department's Internet Crimes Against Children unit.
Kerry Langan, spokeswoman for the New Jersey department, said internet gambling raises as much revenue by itself as a small free-standing casino would.
The 'things' that were uniquely "banking" 20 years ago, today have all been replicated by a transport department, an internet start-up, a social network and a telecommunications company.
Article reference lists, website of UK government health department, generic internet search engines, and stroke-specific organisations were also searched.
Alexander S. Ford, the chief executive of PoliceOne, a law enforcement technology company in San Francisco, said that very few police departments have Internet recruitment systems, though some allow Internet users to print an application form and mail it in.
