From Around the Globe, Serving New York
Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
Outside the graduation ceremony for the New York Police Academy last week. Of the 250 officers who graduated, 65 were foreign-born, representing 23 countries.
The New York Police Department has sent its officers to 11 cities around the globe — even once dispatching a husband and wife to Abu Dhabi. But the return from the world has been far greater.
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Immigrant Officers
Three Stories
Moises Saman for The New York Times
Officer Henry Ko of the New York Police Department was born in Lagos, Nigeria and served as a United States Marine in Japan and Iraq.
Of the 5,593 officers hired since July 2006, when the department began tracking the nationalities of police officers, 1,042 of them were foreign-born — hailing from 88 countries, according to department records.
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