Thick, weak and slow is not the way to be a policeman — or is it?
The NYPD has dramatically relaxed fitness requirements to become a city police officer in a record wave of retirement where brass is desperate for a warm body to meet the ranks, Post learned.
According to an official job posting posted online, we replaced a fake 6-foot wall in a police academy gym with an easy-to-climb wire mesh fence.
This move came after last year recording a series of malformed police officers who used their cell phones to laugh and stand up to get over the wall, and failed.
A copy of the edited video obtained by The Post shows that one applicant is embarrassed to bow after two futile attempts.
“Barrier Mount” is one of the six tasks that make up a physical examination called the “Job Standard Test” that police officers must pass before starting six months of training at the Academy in Flushing, Queens. is.
Also, according to the NYPD recruitment video posted on YouTube to increase the pass rate, the time limit of 3 minutes 28 seconds set in 2019 was extended by almost 1 minute last year to 4:28. I did.
One disgusted policeman said it was “not really difficult” to pass fitness tests, including using a weight machine that was supposed to repeatedly run up and down six steps and mimic the fight against the suspect. “.
“If you can’t meet the basic requirements to be a policeman, you shouldn’t be a policeman,” said a veteran policeman.
In addition to relaxing the Job Standards test, the NYPD seems to have abolished the rule requiring new employees to run 1.5 miles below 14:21 to graduate from the academy.
The qualifications are posted on the official web page featuring the 2019 video detailing JST, but are not part of another video featuring last year’s video.
According to sources, the 1.5-mile run has not been officially ruled out, but Top Brass is considering discarding it, saying, “A great many people are retiring in the crowd and these We have to fill the position. “
Last weekend, the post surpassed 1,535 who left the military in the first six months of 2020 in the deadly first wave of COVID, and more than 2,100 in this year’s record spill. Police reported retired or resigned from NYPD-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, the Academy class, which graduated on Friday, consisted of only 561 new police officers. That’s just over half of the 1,009 people the sources said the NYPD wanted to hire.
The city began applying for the NYPD Written Exam on June 8th. The application deadline is July 15th and the exam will start on August 12th.
In a statement prepared on Tuesday, a NYPD spokesperson said: [the] The New York Police Department and NYPD will continue to comply with state-issued guidelines. “
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