The New Orleans Police Department will have 54 new officers patrolling the city’s streets Wednesday, after the NOPD’s third academy class of the year graduated Tuesday morning.
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“This class puts us over 1,500 officers for the first time since Katrina. Which is a huge, huge for this police department,” said NOPD Superintendent Warren Riley during an address to the graduating class Tuesday.
It took the NOPD three academy classes and a multi-million dollar recruitment campaign to get to that number.
Harlyn Fontenot was one of 54 new recruits to raise …