She’s a true blue blood.

Ashley Jimenez had a sense of duty when she threw her cap into the air at Madison Square Garden at NYPD graduation on Aug. 6: following in the footsteps of her NYPD detective dad.

Det. Manuel Jimenez, a 10-year veteran NYPD police officer from the Dominican Republic worked undercover to bust up heroin rings in the 1990s, and died of stomach cancer in 2001. Ashley was just 9 at the time.

“It was something that was a bit confusing just because as a 9-year-old you really don’t understand death or grief,” said the newly-minted police officer. 4

“On the flip side, it was also a very tender and loving process because I got to see how loved my dad was,” she said. “There were always a lot of friends and family in the house, a lot of people from the NYPD, detective

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