The NYPD Pipes and Drums is a Pipe band made up of active and retired police officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). It is associated with the Irish American Emerald Society and was formerly known as the Emerald Society's Pipe and Drum Band. The NYPD is regarded as one of the foremost American police department pipe and drum bands, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, described the 95-member band in 2005 as the band that, "sets the standard nationwide."