Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly on December 16 announced the start of construction on a 21st century police academy to train the next generation of New York’s Finest. The new NYPD Police Academy, located in College Point at the former NYPD auto pound, will consolidate training facilities for civilians, recruits and active police officers that are currently spread out across the city into one state-of-the-art campus. Construction began last week on the first phase of the project, which includes an academic building, classrooms, tactical gyms that …