Mayor Bloomberg Speaks at Swearing-In Ceremony for New NYPD Recruits
Recruits Born in 52 Different Countries
New Hires to Begin Police Academy Training This Week
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today presided over the swearing-in ceremony for 830 new probationary police officers who upon completion of their Police Academy training will graduate in the summer. The ceremony was held in the Colden Auditorium at Queens College in Flushing, Queens.
Nearly one-quarter of recruits in the January 2013 class were born overseas in 51 foreign countries outside of the United States, listed below. Approximately 43 percent of the class graduated college, including 16 with advanced degrees. Many members of the new class served the Department previously as Police Cadets (18) Traffic Enforcement (12) and School Safety Agents (12), and other civilian titles (11). More than 60 percent reside in New York City.
The average age of the 830 new recruits is 26. Thirty-eight of the recruits served in the U.S. military; 13 of them in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Gender and Race
• 84 percent male; 16 percent female
• 49 percent white
• 13 percent black
• 27.5 percent Hispanic
• 10 percent Asian
• 0.1 percent American Indian
• 0.4 percent other
Countries of Origin
Recruits were born in 52 different countries:
Albania Antigua and Barbuda Argentina
Australia Bangladesh Barbados
Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil
Cambodia Chile China (including Hong Kong)
Columbia Cuba Dominica
Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt
El Salvador Ethiopia Georgia
Guatemala Guyana Haiti
India Ireland Jamaica
Japan Korea, South Lithuania
Mexico Montenegro Nigeria
Pakistan Peru Philippines
Poland Russia Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Serbia Spain
Sri Lanka Trinidad and Tobago Turkey
Ukraine United Kingdom United States and Puerto Rico
Vanuatu Venezuela Wallis and Futuna (France)
Yemen
