Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly presided over the ceremony at Madison Square Garden
About 1,500 new police officers graduated from New York City's Police Academy during a ceremony Thursday at Madison Square Garden.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly presided over the ceremony Thursday for 1,519 new police officers. The graduates have completed more than six months of training at the academy. The city says they will be assigned to Operation Impact, a program that pairs rookie officers with experienced supervisors and deploys them to targeted high-crime areas.
Kelly says the members of this class were born in 58 countries and speak 65 different languages.
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