Artz, Kristen
In this ceremony, NYPD officers are promoted to detectives and lieutenants. The department hopes to find more detectives to boost homicide investigations in the outer boroughs, according to an internal memo.
The NYPD is scrambling to boost its detective ranks following a Daily News investigation that revealed more manpower is available to handle Manhattan murders than for homicides in the outer boroughs.
On Jan. 13, an internal memo circulated within the department announcing the search “for qualified members of the services in ranks of sergeant, lieutenant and detective to fill current and anticipated vacancies within borough detective squads.”
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The order was issued a week after The News revealed that the Manhattan South jurisdiction, for example, had 15.6 detectives per murder in 2013 — far more than outer-borough jurisdictions like Brooklyn North, which had 2.4 detectives per murder.
The NYPD declined to comment.
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But a department source said the NYPD’s chief of detectives office was in a “mad rush” to confirm The News’ analysis on detective staffing in the precincts and borough homicide squads.
Candidates for the detective squads need only a year in their respective rank, a “strong arrest enforcement history” and the recommendation of their commanding officer, the memo indicated.
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