NYPD Officer Didarul Islam remembered by family, police colleagues

📅 Published: August 21, 2025

📰 Source: newsday_com

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This story was reported and written byMatthew Chayes,Nicole FullerandNicholas Spangler.

Didarul Islam, the NYPD officer who was among four people fatallyshot at a midtown Manhattan office tower, was remembered at his funeral Thursday as a calm and steady presence in the Bronx precinct where he worked and as a man dedicated to his family here and abroad.

Thousands of police officers, including from Nassau and Suffolk, attended the service at the Parkchester Jame Masjid mosque on Virginia Avenue in the Bronx.

There, rites for Islam — the Muslim father of two sons, ages 5 and 7, whose widow is pregnant with their third son — were inflected with Arabic prayer and words from the Quran.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, wearing a black head covering and beginning her remarks with the Arabic phrase “As-salamu alaykum,” which means “peace be upon you,” posthumously promoted Islam to detective first-grade, which was met by applause in the packed mosque.

The promotion, typical in deaths declared to have been in the line of duty, increases the benefits his family will receive.

Islam, 36, a police officer for nearly four yearsassigned to the 47th Precinct in the northern Bronx,came to New York City from his native Bangladesh when he was 20 years old, Tisch said. “He joined the NYPD first as a school safety agent in 2019 and a became a police officer two years later,” Tisch said. “In his own words, the police were a blanket for the community, there to provide comfort and care.

And when he joined this department, he made that his personal responsibility.

But it was the man beneath the shield, steady in spirit, generous in presence, that left a deeper imprint. ”
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On the job, he often talked about his wife and sons.