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

A burglary ring has been targeting pharmacies across Queens and Staten Island, hitting at least 11 stores since December. The ...

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.

At the same time it is reducing college credits for incoming recruits to 24, the NYPD also plans to prioritize fitness at the ...

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 ...

Anti-police radicals will call Tisch’s quality-of-life unit racist, abusive and illegal — the same arguments, and the ...

One must already have 45 college credits to apply to the NYPD with the understanding you will have the other credits by the time you begin the academy. In 2023, 29% of NYPD applications — or ...

"We are getting back to the basics of policing, and that starts at the precinct-level and in the neighborhoods we serve," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement to Newsday.

The number of school safety agents — unarmed but uniformed New York Police Department employees stationed at schools — has ...

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