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.

On Friday, the Durham Police Department took a step fill in its vacant positions, with nine new officers graduating from ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

"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 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 ...