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, ...

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

The NYPD recruit who died training in sweltering ... Just five days later he was honored at the police academy graduation at Madison Square Garden, where he was meant to be among the 620 recruits ...

Hundreds of NYPD recruits stand and salute during their 2022 graduation ceremony to full ... that completion of the six-month NYPD Police Academy training program was the equivalent of 45 college ...

Among other officers promoted at the event — which happened at the NYPD Police Academy in Queens — was Det. Christopher Welch, 51, who was involved with an undercover fentanyl bust in November ...

A review of academy training by the National College Credit Recommendation Service determined that completion of the six-month NYPD Police Academy training program was the equivalent of 45 college ...

The number of recruits making it through the NYPD Police Academy has plummeted in recent years, city officials said. Paul Martinka “The NYPD is in a hiring crisis and this is not a budget problem.

The NYPD is launching a three-pronged effort to ... the minimum number of college credits required to enter the police academy to 24 instead of the current 60. Police brass said that the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In the face of a low-staffing crisis, the NYPD is taking bold steps ... college credit requirement for entering the police academy, increase the credits earned during ...