Nearly three dozen NYPD officers who the department now says never should have been hired or promoted will be allowed to remain on the force, for now, amid the ongoing scandal.

The NYPD is trying to force dozens of officers and recruits who failed to meet the department’s standards to resign  —  but ...

NYPD ousted 31 officers for hiring discrepancies amid corruption allegations and a lawsuit by former chief James Essig.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge on Tuesday granted 30 recently-hired NYPD officers a reprieve from being fired, rejecting the department’s bid to end a temporary order blocking the terminations. The ...

City officials said 670 new NYPD cops were sworn in on Thursday, with brass hoping lowered standards will help fill the ranks of New York’s Finest.

Lowering standards for recruits can leave not only citizens more vulnerable to crime but the officers themselves, law enforcement officials said.

The NYPD will freeze hiring of new police officers for the foreseeable future as part of “extremely painful” city budget cuts set to be unveiled by Mayor Adams on Thursday, the Daily Ne… ...

Effective immediately, the prerequisite requirement to enter the police academy will drop from 60 to 24 college credits, which is equivalent to two semesters of college.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – The NYPD is looking to hire traffic enforcement agents, school safety agents and police communications technicians – and you don’t need to be a police officer to apply.

The first new batch of NYPD cops since police brass lowered the admission standards earlier this year was sworn in on Thursday — with Mayor Eric Adams setting a target of 35,000 cops in uniform ...