NYPD January 2009 to have 500 instead of 250?

[JdotB]

An article in the Post the other day talking about how the Queens Subway Patrol Task Force is getting shut down, there was the following excerpt:

The MTA voted on a budget last week to eliminate the W and Z lines and shorten the G and M lines, all of which run in Queens.

That came on the heels of the NYPD announcing it will only have 500 cadets in their January 2009 recruiting class, less than half of what they've had in the last few years, with the ominous promise of more budget cutbacks.

I've been looking elsewhere around but found no other news articles saying how the NYPD is taking in 500 into January 09 academy. It's possible they got the 250 for January, and the projected 250 for July accidentally mixed up. However, knowing how the NYPD does things, allowing 500 total for January 2009 would not surprise me one single bit.

Link to article: http://www.nypost.com/seven/12292008/news/regionalnews/queens/late_night_fright_train_146387.htm

[NoHero]

Spoke to my BI on 12/23/08 and he told me 500 to go in 01/12/09. I'm all done with my fingers crossed.

[JdotB]

Spoke to my BI on 12/23/08 and he told me 500 to go in 01/12/09. I'm all done with my fingers crossed.

Hope your BI is right...if so, the news only gets better :)

[Gokou724]

According to NY1.com:

"Kelly says the department is going to have to learn to do more with less. Personnel accounts for about 94 percent of the agency's budget and next year's incoming classes have been cut from about 2,000 to 500 cadets."

[cbioc329]

I sure hope it is 500.....that would give a lot of us on here a job:)

[bkny27]

Im not 100 percent sure but i think the 500 being hired are 250 poilce officers and 250 school safty. I think that where they get there 500 from. I hope i am wrong tho. Only time can tell