NYPD Job Overview:

If you are looking for information on the NYPD hiring process then you’ve landed on the right web page. However you must understand that the NYPD selection process is a long and tedious one. Sometimes taking up to a year before you are hired.

The hiring process to become a police officer is lengthy at any law enforcement agency, but it is a lot longer at larger departments like NYPD. The pool of applicants is greater at NYPD than any other police department in the state of New York.

That is why applying to NYPD takes a little bit of patience. Below is the steps you’ll have to successfully complete in the selection process before you are hired.

NYPD Average Salary, Pay Scale, Wages, Earnings & Benefits

Below is the average salary for NYPD police officers.

Additional Benefits

• 10 Paid vacation days during first & second year
• 13 Paid vacation days during third, fourth & fifth year
• 27 Paid vacation days after 5 years of service
• Unlimited sick leave with full pay
• A choice of paid medical programs
• Prescription, dental, and eyeglass coverage
• Annuity fund
• Deferred Compensation Plan, 401K and I.R.A.
• Optional retirement at one half salary after 22 years of service
• Annual $12,000 Variable Supplement Fund (upon retirement)
• Annual banking of $12,000 Variable Supplement Fund after 22 years of service (if not retiring)
• Excellent promotional opportunities
• Educational opportunities
• Additional benefits are available to military personnel.

This contract expired on July 31, 2010 and future contracts will need to be negotiated between NYC and the PBA.

Job Standard Test

The Job Standard Test (JST) is a criterion-valid physical job task assessment that tests for an individual’s ability to perform both typical and atypical physical tasks which can be expected to be required of a Police Officer’s response to either a routine radio run or critical incident. The Job Standard Test (pictured in schematic below) is a continuous timed event comprised of six stations that must be completed in four minutes twenty-eight seconds (4:28) without stopping. The six stations of the Job Standard Test are as follows:

• Barrier Surmount: From a kneeling, weapon-ready position the candidate sprints fifty feet to surmount a six-foot barrier.
• Stair Climb: The candidate proceeds from the Barrier Surmount to a 6-stair climb system and completes three over-and-back traverses.
• Physical Restraint Simulation: The candidate proceeds from the Stair Climb to a controlled-force tactics and training device, which measures the ability to resist or control force in a physical restraint situation.
• Pursuit Run: The candidate proceeds from the Physical Restraint Simulation to a run/jog around a pattern of cones for approximately six hundred feet.
• Victim Rescue: The candidate proceeds from the Pursuit Run to a simulated victim rescue involving a thirty-five foot drag of a one hundred seventy-six pound mannequin.
• Trigger Pull: The candidate proceeds from the Victim Rescue to a trigger pull station, picks up an inoperative firearm, holds the firearm within a nine inch diameter metal ring and pulls the trigger sixteen times with the dominant hand and fifteen times with the non-dominant hand. Once inserted, the firearm must remain within the metal ring for the completion of the trigger pull cycles.Timing is stopped upon completion of the final trigger pull.
• This continuous event series must be completed within four minutes twenty eight seconds (4:28).