I'm just wondering if there is or not shortage of sergeants in NYPD because it does affect the rate of promotions. So, I'm making a poll to see if your command is lacking supervisors or not.

I don't necessarily think there's a shortage of sgts, but there is allegedly a huge class of recruits going into the pa this January. That will create a need for some more supervisors. I also think having a large sgt list just makes it available for the dept to promote people if the need arises. Promoting 40-60 people every two or three months really isn't promoting that many people at an alarming rate, indicating that there is some need, but not a dire need for more sgts.

my command has 16 sergeants and 6 lieutenants...when i got there 5 years ago there were 32 sergeants i believe...we had almost every squad, even midnights with 2 sgts, all special ops teams had a sgt (2 crime sgts, 3 conditions sgts, 1 SNEU sgt, School sgt, DV sgt, Comm Affairs sgt)...now we have 2 crime sgts, 1 conditions sgt that also covers schools, 1 sneu sgt, no DV sgt- our 2nd Plt Commander covers DV and no Comm Affair Sgt and some squads without a boss...we also barely have the amount of cops we had back then also so i guess it works hand in hand...nonetheless, i dont know what other commands are like but we rarely get anyone outta BMOC unless theyre super hooked up...i dont know where u heard that the january class of recruits is gonna be huge but i hope ur right...i heard maybe july will be 1000 recruits but i doubt it...i dont know how theyre gonna even get to the next list with the amount of cops the way it is...it seems like everyday is bare minimum

-- Edited by Last Stop on Thursday 12th of November 2009 12:14:09 AM

In my command we are short one LT and there are a couple of squads that don't even have Sgt's. When I first got to the command a couple of squads were doubled up. So in my opinion we need bosses.