NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the department is desperate to fill its ranks after unprecedented dips in new cops in the Big Apple in recent years.

The training run requirement, which was needed to graduate, was relaxed in 2023 when then NYPD Chief of Training Juanita ...

New York’s Finest’s often spotty responses to 311 calls will be tracked under a new NYPD “quality of life” crackdown, police ...

Effective immediately, the prerequisite requirement to enter the police academy will drop from 60 to 24 college credits, ...

She says these changes will help rebuild the NYPD’s ranks while maintaining strong training standards. The NYPD currently has about 33,000 officers, down from 37,000 in 2017.

The plan reduces the number of college credits needed to enter the NYPD’s Police Academy, increases the number of credits earned during academy training and reinstates a timed-run requirement ...

“The NYPD was not ready for the volume,” Jason Tsulis, a gun license holder and plaintiff in the suit, said. “They did not have the proper training.” Last week, NY1 aired a report about ...

The training run requirement, which was needed to graduate, was relaxed in 2023 when then NYPD Chief of Training Juanita Holmes lobbied to eliminate it, feeling it was unnecessary and an obstacle ...