NYPD commish Jessica Tisch vows to bring back 1.5-mile timed run, reduces college requirements to beef up force in ‘crisis’
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.
Durham Police Academy graduates new recruits with hopes of easing staffing shortage
On Friday, the Durham Police Department took a step fill in its vacant positions, with nine new officers graduating from ...
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Retired NYPD officers work to restore car of slain officer Eddie Byrne
A burglary ring has been targeting pharmacies across Queens and Staten Island, hitting at least 11 stores since December. The ...
How NYPD commish Jessica Tisch will save NYC — one ‘broken window’ at a time
Anti-police radicals will call Tisch’s quality-of-life unit racist, abusive and illegal — the same arguments, and the ...
NYPD lowers college credit requirement to address hiring crisis
Effective immediately, the prerequisite requirement to enter the police academy will drop from 60 to 24 college credits, ...
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In recruiting effort, NYPD lowers college credit requirement for Police Academy entry
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 ...
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NYPD Reduces College Credit Requirement for Recruits, Brings Back Run
At the same time it is reducing college credits for incoming recruits to 24, the NYPD also plans to prioritize fitness at the ...
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says department is lowering college credit requirement from 60 to 24 for new recruits
In 2023, more than 2,200 potential candidates had to be rejected because they couldn't meet the college requirement, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
‘It’s unfortunate and scary.’ Some visitors shaken, others steady after NYPD shooting at Staten Island shopping center
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The fatal shooting of an armed 55-year-old man by police, following a standoff in the parking lot of a ...
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NYC’s school safety force has shrunk by nearly a third. Principals are raising alarms.
The number of school safety agents — unarmed but uniformed New York Police Department employees stationed at schools — has ...
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch orders scores of police officers to precincts
"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.