JUDGE BLOCKS NYPD FIRING OF DISQUALIFIED PROBATIONARY OFFICERS

By Bob Walsh

 

 

A N.Y. State Supreme Court judge has temporarily blocked the NYPD from firing more than 30 probationary officers over "hiring irregularities."  

The officers were informed that they must either resign or would be fired due to disqualifying offenses that were identified during an internal review of their hiring process.  These disqualifications are allegedly specified by state law but were ignored somewhere along the line.  The union squawked about due process issues.

The 30+ officers were all cleared by a former NYPD inspector, who has since been reassigned.  The department is reviewing all of the overrides he approved.  Some of them were for psych issues.  

These officers are part of a group of almost 100 officers who failed their psych evals but were hired anyway.  

The NYPD and the PBA are both scheduled to appear before a judge next week to see which way things are going to proceed.