Williams v. Safir

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Leibovitz, J.), entered February 8, 1999, which denied petitioner’s application to annul respondents’ determination terminating petitioner’s employment as a probationary police officer and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

We reject petitioner’s argument that section 891 of McKinney’s Unconsolidated Laws of New York (L 1940, ch 834), which provides that police officers can be terminated only for incompetence or misconduct shown after a hearing (unless convicted of a felony or oath-of-office crime [see generally,…