We agree that the award to which the application may be entitled may be rendered ineffectual without the injunction it seeks (CPLR 7502 [c]). As the IAS court concluded, "if ultimately the arbitrator rules that solo supervisory patrols should not have been implemented before the [petitioner] was consulted about training, that award would be meaningless to any officer who has been injured or killed."
Concur — Milonas, J.P., Rosenberger, Kupferman, Ross and Smith, JJ.