Ex-NYPD commissioner's rookie son promoted to detective age 23 after just 18 months as cop

[Demovictory9]

https://nypost.com/2022/11/12/ex-nypd-commissioner-dermot-sheas-rookie-son-promoted-to-detective/

Former NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea’s rookie son landed a promotion after just 18 months as a cop — in a surprise move that has some in the department crying foul.

Richard Shea, 23, is getting moved from patrolman to a detective unit in NYPD’s 23rd precinct in East Harlem effective Monday, according to an internal NYPD memo obtained by The Post.

Shea joined the department in November 2020 and completed his six months at the police academy last May, according to his NYPD officer profile.

Since he began working his beat as a patrolman he’s racked up 32 arrests. He’s also received no awards and no additional training.

The fast-tracked promotion of a rookie fresh out of the police academy to an investigative unit is virtually unheard of, sources said.

“Nobody gets it that fast unless there’s an exceptional circumstance,” a police source told The Post. “You get into a shootout and your partner gets killed and you kill the bad guy. Then they’d probably bump you to detective. But he’s just out of the academy. What could he possibly know? It’s bullsh–t. You can’t get it in a year and a half.”

[RockRaven]

1. What? A police department is a corrupt joke? I've never heard of such a thing!

[Demovictory9]

2. I was surprised too

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

3. New York's finest

[ZonkerHarris]

4. He'll be assigned to the hard scrabble streets of the Nepotism Precinct

[Demovictory9]

8. Exactly

[secondwind]

5. He's racked up 32 arrests since May.

[MrsCoffee]

6. May, 2021.

Says since he started his beat as a patrolman when he graduated. He graduated May 2021. He has 18 months experience. Cops with many years experience have been been waiting for promotion.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-police-commissioner-sheas-son-transferred-to-detective-squad-20221112-mjle6voibjhcnlxvpv2nfbz6vu-story.html

[Demovictory9]

7. Yep..detective at age 23? That's crazy

[MrsCoffee]

9. Yea.

It’s not even a little subtle lol.

[lapucelle]

10. Balderdash! Didn't you ever watch 21 Jump Street or The Mod Squad?

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Watch his case load.

No one ascends this quickly with any kind of freedom to do his investigations independently.