The pool of recruits is made up of those who took the police test but weren't able to satisfy the former 60-credit threshold, ...

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

A group of retired NYPD officers are working to restore an historic 1987 Chevy Caprice police vehicle, providing a tribute to ...

New York’s police force ... after a review of the department’s six-month training program at the police academy. The review found that recruits who complete the program should earn more ...

How frequent NY police crashes wreck lives. Further, not enough police departments in New York require regular post-academy driver training and remedial emergency response training after crashes ...

“We need more cops, and I’m not going to sugarcoat it,” Tisch said at an Association for a Better New York event. The number of recruits making it through the NYPD Police Academy has ...

The New York City Police Department is considering lowering the college credit requirement to become a police officer as a way of boosting the ability of more people to enter the police academy ...

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 ...