The NYPD is launching a three-pronged effort to beef up the dwindling ranks of New York’s Finest, including reinstating a timed-run requirement and a reduced college credit condition. Police ...
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, ...
The new changes “will bring the department more in line with peer agencies across the country, strengthen our officer training and ensure that the NYPD remains the best and most rewarding way ...
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 ...
At the same time it is reducing college credits for incoming recruits to 24, the NYPD also plans to prioritize fitness at the academy and reinstate a 1.5-mile training run requirement. Hundreds of ...
“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 NYPD has reduced its high-speed chases by 85 percent in little more than a month, but the street-safety policy change ...
The NYPD has reduced the number of college credits required to join the force, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced Wednesday. Incoming recruits only need 24 college credits, a steep drop from ...