Deputy Chief

Fire Deputy Chief Constance Zapella has made history — once again! As the first female firefighter to join the Jersey City Fire Department, Zapella has become the first female deputy chief in the department — making her New Jersey’s highest-ranking professional female officer, the city announced. Mayor Steven Fulop joined Public Safety Director James Shea and Fire Chief Steven McGill…

Four people were killed and six were wounded Sunday night in Fresno, California, when “unknown suspects” sneaked into a backyard and opened fire on a group gathered to watch a football game, Fresno police told NBC News. Kris Sanchez reports.

Police searched Monday for two assailants who sneaked into a backyard party in Fresno and opened fire while a small crowd watched football on television. Four people were killed and six wounded.

A Harlem building superintendent and his wife were shot and killed by a tenant who had been feuding with them, before the suspect set fire to his apartment and turned the gun on himself

An off-duty NYPD officer died after being found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound late Tuesday, police said

The man charged with murder in a bloody rampage that left four men dead may have also attacked another homeless man about a week earlier, NYPD officials say.

The four homeless men who were beaten to death with a metal pipe in Chinatown, allegedly by another homeless man, over the weekend still remained unidentified Monday as police struggled to identify their next of kins.

The NYPD, criticized in the DOI report for re-traumatizing victims and jeopardizing prosecutions, has accelerated a program to train all special-victims investigators in the specialized interview techniques, known as trauma-informed questioning.

The management of the building where a man was killed in a freak elevator mishap said that the building will be getting new lift equipment

A 30-year-old man died in Manhattan after the elevator he was trying to exit apparently malfunctioned and trapped him, pinning him between the elevator car and the shaft wall, officials say.

In another tragedy for the NYPD, a veteran police officer died by suicide in his Queens home Wednesday evening, police said — the seventh member of the force to do so in the last 10 weeks and the second in just two days.

A sixth NYPD officer has died by suicide in the last two months, escalating a recent crisis that has caused all levels of police leadership to speak out on the need for cops to look after their mental health and that of their colleagues.

A fifth NYPD officer has died by suicide in the last two months, escalating a recent crisis that has caused all levels of police leadership to speak out on the need for cops to look after their mental health and that of their colleagues.

A fourth NYPD officer has died by suicide in the last three weeks, escalating a recent crisis that has caused all levels of police leadership to speak out on the need for cops to look after their mental health and that of their colleagues.

A well-known, well-respected NYPD deputy chief took his own life Wednesday after spending nearly four decades serving New York City

A large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea attacked and killed its owner when the man fell on his property in Florida, authorities said Saturday.

A firefighter who sued to keep a beard he grew for religious reasons has shaved it off after a judge denied his request.

Miami Beach is adding dozens of additional officers this upcoming weekend as the city will be cracking down on out of control spring breakers.