The feds announced the task force Wednesday. Stephen Yang for the NY Post

Federal authorities launched a first-of-its-kind task force in New York that law enforcement leaders vowed Wednesday would tackle “evolving threats presented by transnational organized crime.”

US Attorney prosecutors, the FBI, Homeland Security, the IRS and the NYPD unveiled the new Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) New York that takes aim at notorious cartels and foreign gangs that set their sets on the Big Apple.

HSI NY Special Agent in Charge Ricky Patel. Stephen Yang for the NY Post

The task force would better streamline intelligence obtained across agencies at every level of government, officials said in Lower Manhattan during a press conference.

“This task force is the first of its kind, using a whole

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