NYPD commissioner demands hospital retrain staff who withheld treatment from police officers

Several NYPD detectives were “met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic professional courtesy” at the Home Depot Emergency Department at New York University Langone Health—Cobble Hill last week, according to the NYC Detectives’ Endowment Association. The staff initially mistook the officers for federal immigration officers and suggested they go somewhere else for treatment, according to multiple reports.

“Reps from the hospital apologized to Commissioner Tisch and the NYPD and said that hospital staff had a misunderstanding of their policy. Commissioner Tisch asked that all hospital staff be retrained to ensure that this type of incident never happens again,” a spokesman for the NYPD said.

The NYPD spokesman said their officer “put their lives on the line to protect this city, and the very