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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Mercado, a grade 3 detective assigned to the Bronx Special Victims Unit, earns $144,000 (approximately Rs 12.5 lakh) a year ...

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 ...

Marissa Bergen did not set out to be a trailblazing firefighter when she joined the Trenton Fire Department in 2017. “I was ...

The demonstrators and the Council on American-Islamic Relations-New York are now suing the city and individual NYPD officers ... "More than one woman had her hijab removed in the midst of the ...

The NYPD has come to a decision on detective Melissa Mercado following her appearance in a rap video that left everyone shocked to learn that she was a police officer. Mercado, a special victims ...