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	Governor Addresses 88 New State Troopers Albany, NY (June 9, 2009) - Governor David A. Paterson and New York State Police Superintendent Harry J. Corbitt today honored 88 new troopers at ceremonies marking the completion of the 197th Session of the Basic School of the New York State Police Academy. The new troopers will report for field duty on June 23, 2009, and for the following ten weeks will be evaluated under a field-training program supervised by senior Field Training Officers. [read more]


	New Troop G Headquarters Plans Move Forward (Albany, NY - March 13, 2009) - Plans to build a new Troop G Headquarters for the New York State Police continue to move forward. As a result of major deficiencies and the outdated state of the current facility built in Loudonville in 1957, the State Police initiated relocation plans in January of 2003. Legislation authorized the sale of the current Troop G Headquarters property to Siena College in August of 2003, and in June of 2006 the transfer of ownership was executed. State Police anticipate breaking ground for site preparation in June of this year. [read more]

Eligibility List

The New York State Police offers an open competitive exam every 3 to 4 years. All the candidates are ranked based on their score from the written entrance exam and an eligibility list is established. The list can range into the thousands and depends on how many candidates pass the exam. The list has exceeded 15,800 for the 2008 exam.

Candidates are called for further processing in rank order. We typically conduct processing for two academy classes per year. Based upon the size of the class, we process approximately 10 candidates for 1 vacancy. This means, for example, that for a class size of 100, we will canvas around 1,000 candidates to attend a processing. Classes typically range in size from 100 to 250, depending on the number of vacancies authorized to be filled.

Do not get discouraged by your rank. Whether we will reach your rank or not depends on how long we will utilize the list, the number of retirements and separations from service, selection process attrition, and the number of vacancies authorized to be filled. The list established in 2004 was utilized for four years and we processed beyond the rank of 10,000 for that exam cycle.

Due to the fact that we might not reach your rank for a year or more in some cases, it is vitally important you keep your contact information current. We can not hire you if we can not reach you.