{"id":45326,"date":"2025-11-19T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45326\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:51:09","slug":"bill-named-for-slain-nypd-officer-didarul-islam-would-assist-cops-like-him-who-first-worked-other-city-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45326\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill named for slain NYPD Officer Didarul Islam would assist cops like him who first worked other city jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new state bill honoring slain NYPD Officer Didarul Islam<\/a> will assist officers like him who took a circuitous path to joining the force.<\/p>\n

If passed in Albany, the Didarul Islam Police Recruitment Act will give a pension boost to cops who first served in other city agencies before going into the Police Academy, supporters of the legislation said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Islam\u2019s father and brother-in-law stood with Police Benevolent Association union President Pat Hendry outside the 47th Precinct stationhouse where the fallen cop was assigned before his death at the hands of Park Ave. mass shooter Shane Tamura.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice Benevolent Association President Pat Hendry outside the NYPD’s 47th Precinct stationhouse in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Sheetal Banchariya \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Islam worked in a civilian NYPD role as a school safety agent for two years before becoming a full-fledged police officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he finally became a police officer, he started telling people, this is the way. Become a school safety agent, traffic enforcement agent, or police cadet, and finally, you can become a police officer in the New York City Police Department,\u201d said his brother-in-law, Aamrul Hasan. \u201cHe encouraged so many people, neighbors, friends and people from his mosque, to become a police officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Islam didn\u2019t realize that those years of service to the city didn\u2019t count toward his pension or time until retirement, Hasan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not think that was right,\u201d Hasan said. \u201cHe was already working in the New York City Police Department, protecting people, but once he become police officer, it was like that service did not matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MohammedMohammed Abdul Rob (left), father of NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, and Islam\u2019s brother-in-law, Aamrul Hasan, outside the NYPD’s 47th Precinct stationhouse in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Sheetal Banchariya \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The legislation will help fix that, Hendry said, adding that cops who joined the department from other city agencies before 2009 were allowed to add their time and financial contributions to their NYPD pension.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe time that Didarul spent at School Safety, protecting students shouldn\u2019t go erased,\u201d said Hendry. \u201cIt should count.\u201d<\/p>\n

Didarul, 36, was\u00a0one of four people killed <\/a>at 345 Park Ave., a Midtown office skyscraper, on July 28 by Tamura, who drove from his home in Las Vegas and opened fire as soon as he entered the building, police said.<\/p>\n

The officer was working an off-duty security post approved by the department and was in uniform when Tamura\u2019s raid began. The father of three was promoted to NYPD detective<\/a> at his funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new state bill honoring slain NYPD Officer Didarul Islam will assist officers like him who took a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-45326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}