The NYPD Transit Bureau Citywide Vandals Task Force entered the bowels of the city on Tuesday afternoon, following the glint of the rails as they searched for trespassers who use the off-limits subway lines as their personal graffiti playground.

amNewYork Metro followed along in an exclusive inside look at their daily tasks, climbing into the darkness of Brooklyn’s Church Avenue before venturing beyond the platform — pushing through tight corridors and dodging the lethal third rail.

These officers expose themselves to the dangers of the subway tracks every day for a singular purpose: stopping graffiti vandals who mar train cars and ruin New Yorkers’ commutes every day.

Not long after putting on blue latex gloves and carefully descending ladders from the street, the task force members – under the leadership this day of Gerardo Meola — find evidence of graffiti vandals.

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