NYPD Training And Physical Requirements

Training & Physical Requirements

TRAINING

Police Officers are assigned to the Police Academy for six months.

Training topics include:

  • Law
  • Police Science
  • Behavioral Science
  • Physical Training

Police Officers begin receiving pay and benefits from their first day of recruit training. A recruit can receive up to 45 college credits for their Police Academy training (restrictions apply depending on the college).

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The Police Officers physical agility test measures performance on simulated physical tasks that are both either frequently encountered by, or critical to, the position of a Police Officer.

Job Standard Test

By the very nature of their work, police officers are asked to meet certain physical requirements. The NYPD’s Job Standard Test is a physical endurance test to evaluate an applicant’s ability to perform physical tasks typically associated with a routine radio call or a critical incident.

The Police Officer Candidate Job Standard Test is a timed event comprising six stations that, together, must be completed in four minutes and twenty-eight seconds (4:28) without stopping. The six stations of the Candidate Job Standard Test include:

  1. Fence Surmount: From a kneeling, weapon-ready position, the candidate sprints 50 feet to surmount a six-foot fence.
  2. Stair Climb: The candidate proceeds from the Fence Surmount to a six-stair climb system, and completes three over-and-back traverses.
  3. Physical Restraint Simulation: The candidate proceeds from the Stair Climb to a tactics-and-training device that measures an applicant’s ability to resist or control force in a physical restraint situation.
  4. Pursuit Run: The candidate proceeds from the Physical Restraint Simulation to a 600-foot run around a pattern of cones.
  5. Victim Rescue: The candidate proceeds from the Pursuit Run to a simulated victim rescue involving a 35-foot drag of a 176 pound mannequin.
  6. Trigger Pull: The candidate proceeds from the Victim Rescue to a trigger-pull station, picks up an inoperative firearm, holds the firearm within a nine inch diameter metal ring and pulls the trigger 16 times with the dominant hand, and 15 times with the non-dominant hand. Once inserted, the firearm must remain within the metal ring for the completion of the trigger pull cycles. Timing is stopped upon completion of the final trigger pull.

For dates and times call the Fitness Incentive Tracking Unit at (212) 477-7534.

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