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NYPD rookie makes arrest moments after graduation
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_odd_rooki...
NEW YORK – A New York Police Department rookie just couldn't wait to get started.
One of the NYPD's newest officers made his first arrest Thursday just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square
Garden.
Officer Dariel Firpo, 23, was leaving the midtown Manhattan ceremony when he saw a 79-year-old man being robbed of his wallet and thrown to the ground
by a mugger, police said.
The mugger tried to run away, but Firpo caught him without incident, they said.
"Officer Firpo made us all proud," police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "He's off to a great start."
The man Firpo arrested, Jeffrey Grant, was being charged with robbery. Grant, 47, has 48 previous arrests and was just released last week from Sing
Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., after serving time for a robbery conviction, police said.
Grant, of Manhattan, was in custody late Thursday and couldn't be contacted. The name of his attorney wasn't yet on record.
The mugging victim was treated at a hospital for a broken wrist.
Firpo's feat "may be the fastest police action upon graduation in department history," said chief police spokesman Paul Browne, who was at the
graduation ceremony for the class of 250 new officers.
Firpo, who graduated from Lehman College in January with a degree in political science, said he wants to focus on community affairs while working in
the nation's biggest police department.
"I'm really trying to stick in the community," he said.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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Dave
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thats wicked
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BKT
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Amazing. Good for him, sounds like he is off to a good start.
MM.
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I'm not the biggest fan of cops but when I hear about one that still maintains an idealistic view of helping people and making their town a better
place, it makes me smile.
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clevohardcore
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That is awesome.
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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