O’Neill: I’ll stay four more yrs.

POLICE Commissioner James O’Neill plans to stay at the top of the NYPD for the long haul, he said Thursday.

“I love this job. I love what I do,” he said at City Hall. “And I look forward to spending the next four years leading this great Police Department.”

The commissioner (photo) shared his plans to stick around for Mayor de Blasio’s second term at a press conference where Hizzoner announced O’Neill, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro and Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter would all remain in their jobs as Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña retires.

De Blasio, while announcing shakeups at the deputy mayor level, had previously said reporters should “assume continuity” in his staff unless told otherwise.

But he was still often questioned about his plans for high-profile jobs like O’Neill’s.

“Four years,” O’Neill reiterated again when asked about his plans. “My plans are to stay here.”

O’Neill, who has been with the NYPD for 35 years, is presiding over the department as crime continues to fall, and is expected to reach record lows yet again in 2017.

“Homicides, shootings, overall crime continues to go down. 2016 was a very good year for us,” O’Neill said. “Here we are in the last days of 2017 and once again homicides, shootings and overall crime are down.”

The mayor heaped praise on the top cop, as well as Nigro, whom he said was leading a department with fewer fatal fires and more diversity. And de Blasio praised Carter, the city’s top lawyer, for reaching settlements like the one with the Vulcan Society over accusations of racial discrimination in testing and hiring practices by the FDNY.

De Blasio was joined by his wife, Chirlane McCray, whom he says he consults about all of his personnel decisions.

The mayor was tight-lipped about who would replace Fariña, as well as what was in store for others at the commissioner level.

“We’ll tell you each thing explicitly when the time is right,” he said.