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 ...

Following his tenure, he served as an academy instructor and safety training coordinator before retiring from the NYPD in 2009. Pepitone transitioned into education in 2016 as the chief of public ...

NYPD reduces college credit requirement for new recruits, reinstates training run Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News Wed, February 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM UTC ...

These 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 for someone ...