Eleven Guyanese among new NYPD Officers

Eleven Guyanese among new NYPD Officers

(NY Daily News)  Nearly a quarter of the NYPD’s newest batch of cops are foreign born, with the Dominican Republic leading the way as the most popular birthplace.

On Monday, 616 recruits will graduate after six months of training at the police academy.

They hail from 49 countries, with 24 born in the Dominican Republic, according to statistics obtained by the Daily News.

The second most popular birth country is Guyana, with 11 recruits. Ten recruits are from Bangladesh and eight hail from Trinidad and Tobago.

But 26 countries, from Azerbaijan to Yemen, are represented by just one new recruit, the statistics show.

In total, 138 of the recruits were born outside the United States, or about one in four, similar to classes in recent years.

The NYPD welcomed 607 new graduates to its ranks Monday as one of the most diverse classes in the agency’s history graduated from the Police Academy.

The class included 71 people who served in the military and 53 who each speak three foreign languages.

In an address to the graduates, Mayor de Blasio, hailed the group’s diversity.

“Fifty-one percent of this class is African-American, Latino or Asian. Nearly 20% of this class is women,” de Blasio said, as the crowded room filled with applause.

“You hail from 47 different countries. . . . We have a Maltese speaker here in the class. We have a Tajik speaker here in the class. We have an Ewe speaker, which is a language spoken only in Ghana and Togo in West Africa. You name it, we got it at the NYPD. And you’re adding to that richness,” the mayor added.

Many of the graduates are from civil service families who have several relatives on the job, like Kathleen McCarthy, recipient of the New York City Police Foundation Award for Exceptional Community Service.

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