The number of female officers in the NYPD has grown to 21%, but a closer look shows that the women now serving in the most elite units of the department are also on the rise and drawing attention.

Detective Melissa Mercado, an NYPD investigator, has been pulled from active cases after she appeared as in rapper S-Quire’s ...

A Bronx Special Victims Unit officer is under scrutiny after appearing in a viral music video featuring pole dancing in a ...

Detective Melissa Mercado, a seven-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, is facing backlash for appearing in a ...

The curvaceous NYPD detective who went viral after starring in a raunchy rap video while twerking in a thong and skimpy bra will no longer investigate active cases with the Special Victims Division, ...

A police officer is facing backlash after making an off-duty cameo as a rap video vixen. Melissa Mercado, a seven-year NYPD ...

Two women claim in a new federal lawsuit they had their hijabs forcefully removed and were assaulted by NYPD officers while protesting last summer.

Police said they discovered the pair at a NYCHA building in Brownsville after getting a call about a foul odor.

Melissa Mercado, a seven-year veteran of New York’s Finest, popped up on a music video published by World Hip Hop, which shows the curvy cop gyrating and shaking her body while wearing only a thong ...

To mark Women’s History Month, we are profiling the NYPD’s first female Indian Commanding Officer. She just started her ...

A 911 call for a foul odor led police officers to discover the bodies of a 7-year-old boy and 33-year-old woman inside a Brooklyn apartment on Wednesday, according ...

NYPD officials said officers found the woman, who had been missing from an apartment on Morris Avenue near East 182nd Street ...