Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

3 days ago | nypost.com | Larry Celona |Amanda Woods |Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

New York’s Finest isn’t fine enough for one upstate county. Officials in Orange County are snubbing the NYPD, saying they won’t take on any cops who want to transfer out of the nation’s largest and best-trained police force — because the department’s reduced recruitment standards aren’t up to snuff for them. “This memo is to advise that the New York City Police Department has changed their minimum qualifications,” an internal Orange County human resources memo obtained by The Post said.

4 days ago | nypost.com | Marie O. Pohl |Larry Celona |Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

The mom found dead in a squalid Bronx apartment next to the body of her disabled 8-year-old son was remembered at a moving memorial service Sunday — with an NYPD charity and State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie picking up the tab.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Khristina Narizhnaya |Amanda Woods |Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Cops and firefighters are scouring the East River for a missing 14-year-old girl who bystanders said plunged into the current after dropping her phone in the water Friday afternoon. Police responded to a 911 call on Roosevelt Island shortly after noon on reports of a missing teen — and found the missing girl’s distraught pal next to the water, according to authorities and witnesses.

1 week ago | nypost.com | Miranda Devine |Carl Campanile |Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik, whose career included White House stints under President Trump and former President George W. Bush, died Thursday after being hospitalized with cardiac illness. He was 69. Kerik’s high-profile career was peppered with both success and controversy. Born in Newark, New Jersey, on Sept. 4, 1955, he served in the US Army before joining the NYPD in 1986.

1 week ago | aol.com | Miranda Devine |Carl Campanile |Jorge Fitz-Gibbon |David Propper

Ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was known as “America’s Cop” and led the city’s police department through the 9/11 terror attacks, died Thursday after he was hospitalized with cardiac disease. He was 69 and surrounded by family and friends at the time of his death at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.