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A whopping 965 new NYPD cops filed into Madison Square Garden on Tuesday for their police academy graduation in a hopeful sign the department is turning a corner on its persistent staffing crisis.

The NYPD is trying to force dozens of officers and recruits who failed to meet the department’s standards to resign  --  but the effort faced a roadblock late Thursday after a state judge blocked the move, the Post has learned.

A state law prohibits NYPD officers from moving to police roles in other parts of New York because the department has recently lowered its admission standards

City officials said 670 new NYPD cops were sworn in on Thursday, with brass hoping lowered standards will help fill the ranks of New York's Finest.

Four new police academy classes will hit the streets this year following calls to City Hall to restore them in the wake of the fatal shooting of NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.

A freeze on the NYPD's new academy class is among the "horrendous" budget cuts expected to come down Thursday -- as the Big Apple grapples with the soaring cost of the migrant crisis, The Post has learned.

An NYPD recruit who began at the Police Academy in July says he's barely getting by and has had to seek funding help from the public to afford his uniform for a role as a school safety officer

The count of prospective officers enrolling to become part of the New York City Police Department has decreased dramatically compared to five years ago

Last week, Mayor Eric Adams approved a plan to accommodate up to 500 newly arrived migrants in the unused gymnasium of the former Police Academy building

Officials with the Office of Emergency Management were spotted on Thursday night setting up rows upon rows of green cots inside the first-floor gym of the Gramercy Park facility in preparation for an influx of up to 500 migrants.

Post readers express their opinions on the NYPD's choice to remove the timed run requirement for new police recruits