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Daughter of NYC cop killed in 9-11 attacks joins NYPD

By iNFOTEL
April 14 2017 11:18 AM

CP1805265624 — In this April 13, 2017 photo, Brittney Roy, center, the daughter of NYPD Sgt. Timothy Alan Roy who died during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is sworn in as a new cadet at the NYPD Police Academy in the Queens borough of New York. Roy was one of 474 cadets to be sworn in during the ceremony. Roy\'s father was assigned to the NYPD\'s surface transit enforcement division and was working in Brooklyn courts when the terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center. He was last seen by the South Tower before it collapsed and his body was found the following March. (Charles Eckert /Newsday via AP)

NEW YORK – The daughter of a New York Police Department officer killed in the 9-11 terrorist attacks has been sworn in as a member of the force.

Brittney Roy, of Massapequa (mas-uh-PEE’-kwuh) Park on Long Island, was sworn in Thursday along with 473 other recruits at the city’s police academy in Queens.

Her father, Sgt. Timothy Roy, was assigned to the NYPD’s surface transit enforcement division. He was working in Brooklyn courts when the terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

The 36-year-old Roy rushed to Lower Manhattan to help. He was last seen near the South Tower before it collapsed. His body was found the following March.

Brittney Roy, now 22, was 7 when her father died. She says she always dreamed of becoming a police officer.

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