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

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.

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

"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 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 ...

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

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 ...

At the same time it is reducing college credits for incoming recruits to 24, the NYPD also plans to prioritize fitness at the ...

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 ...

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.