Dozens of NYPD cops who failed to meet the department’s standards – including for mental health – are now being forced to resign, or else they will be fired from the Force, law enforcement sources revealed Thursday.
A total of 30 cops – hired between 2023 and 2024 under Inspector Terrell Anderson, who has since been transferred out of his role with the Police Academy – are being notified of the purge Thursday, according to the sources.
“They all got called down,” a police source told The Post. “They’re being told: ‘You didn’t meet the qualifications. You shouldn’t have been hired. You have 24 hours to resign or be fired.’”
“A lot of them are psych issues,” the source said. “There are other issues too.”
The NYPD confirmed the move in a statement issued to The Post.
“Following an internal investigation, the NYPD recently identified officers who joined the department in the past two years despite receiving final notices of disqualification during the application process, which is a violation of the law,” a department spokesperson said. “The department was not legally allowed to hire these individuals and was forced to inform them that they could no longer continue as members of the NYPD.”
During their application process, the recruits were issued notices of disqualification, which prohibits the NYPD from hiring them as a matter of state law, the sources said.
Some of the recruits in question allegedly lied about their previous convictions, multiple arrests and previous employment terminations, according to the sources.
The officers’ guns were removed over the past few days, the sources.
Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association, is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the cops’ removal from the department.
“These police officers aren’t responsible for the NYPD’s broken hiring process,” Hendry said. “As far as they know, they were qualified to be New York City police officers, because the NYPD hired and trained them.”
“It is an absolute travesty that the department is trying to cover its tracks by summarily forcing them off the job, without affording them the same appeal process available to other applicants,” the union head said.
“We are exploring all legal options to protect our members’ rights and hold the NYPD accountable for this complete management failure.”
Meanwhile, Anderson, who led the NYPD’s “Candidate Assessment Division,” was transferred to the housing unit back May 12 as part of an Internal Affairs Bureau probe into claims he allowed more than 70 candidates to stay at the academy, even though they had failed the psych requirements.
Anderson is now facing serious departmental charges, according to the sources.
Among the troubled recruits allegedly kept on by Anderson was Emilio Andino, the nephew of ex-NYPD Lt. Quathisha Epps — the former department bigwig implicated in a tawdry sex-for-OT scandal, the sources said.
Andino, who was on probation, was previously fired after getting into a fight at the academy, according to the sources.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/dozens-of-troubled-nypd-recruits-finally-forced-to-resign-after-faulty-hiring-standards/
