CPR training now required for cops s

NYPD cops will be required to be trained in CPR before they graduate from the Police Academy, and then recertified every two years after that, under a law signed by Gov. Cuomo on Sunday.

The legislation was named Briana’s Law for 11-year-old Briana Ojeda of Brooklyn. The child (right) died from an asthma attack in 2010 after a responding officer couldn’t perform CPR.

The bill was signed into law on the seventh anniversary of Briana’s death.

“This common-sense law will give law enforcement the training and the tools that will help save lives,” Cuomo said in a statement.

“CPR is a critical skill and by requiring law-enforcement candidates and officers to become certified, we can create a safer New York for all.” The law also applies to State Police. The state Assembly passed a similar measure for five years straight, but it then languished in the Senate each time over funding concerns.

That bill required the training for at least some upstate police depart-tments, which opposed it, again be-ecause of funding issues.

The new law, which will go into ef-ffect in 60 days, finally won Senate ap-pproval in June when those depart-tments were removed from it.

Last year, a judge dismissed thehe Ojeda family’s lawsuit against thehe city, noting that the NYPD didn’t re-equire its officers to be trained in CPRR at the time.