Dozens of troubled NYPD recruits finally forced to resign after faulty hiring standards

Dozens of NYPD recruits who failed to meet the department’s standards – including for mental health – are now being forced to resign, or else they will be fired from the Force, law enforcement sources revealed Thursday.

A total of 31 cops – hired between 2023 and 2024 under Inspector Terrell Anderson, who has since been transferred out of his role with the Police Academy – are receiving final notices for disqualification throughout the day Thursday, according to the sources.

“They all got called down,” a police source told The Post. “They’re being told: ‘You didn’t meet the qualifications. You shouldn’t have been hired. You have 24 hours to resign or be fired.’”

“A lot of them are psych issues,” the source said. “There are other issues too.”

The officers’ guns were removed over the past few days, the sources.

Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association, is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the cops’ removal from the department.

“These police officers aren’t responsible for the NYPD’s broken hiring process,” Hendry said. “As far as they know, they were qualified to be New York City police officers, because the NYPD hired and trained them.”

“It is an absolute travesty that the department is trying to cover its tracks by summarily forcing them off the job, without affording them the same appeal process available to other applicants,” the union head said.

“We are exploring all legal options to protect our members’ rights and hold the NYPD accountable for this complete management failure.”

Meanwhile, Anderson, who led the NYPD’s “Candidate Assessment Division,” was transferred to the housing unit back May 12 as part of an Internal Affairs Bureau probe into claims he allowed more than 70 candidates to stay at the academy, even though they had failed the psych requirements.

Anderson could now face departmental charges, according to the sources.

Among the troubled recruits allegedly kept on by Anderson was Emilio Andino, the nephew of ex-NYPD Lt. Quathisha Epps — the former department bigwig implicated in a tawdry sex-for-OT scandal, the sources said.

Andino, who was on probation, was previously fired after getting into a fight at the academy, according to the sources.