The updated facial hair policy for NYPD officers, school safety agents, and traffic enforcement agents is to uphold the department's high standards for professionalism, with beards limited to 1mm and specific styles like goatees and designer beards prohibited.
The department altered the policy due to difficulties in implementing fair exemptions, with mustaches and sideburns still allowed but with constraints on length and style to align with historical appearance standards.
The NYPD's changes to their facial hair policy were influenced by a lawsuit from a Muslim officer in 2018 who contested the 1-inch beard limitation, leading to the settlement and subsequent revisions.
The effort by NYPD to refine the appearance standards is part of a broader initiative focusing on bringing back traditional norms, such as controlling facial hair length and style for uniformed officers.
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