CUO-BAN COP HAS NEW GIG

Promoted to sergeant

State Trooper Dane Pfeiffer — the love interest of one of disgraced exGov. Andrew Cuomo’s daughters who was a member of his security detail before the disapproving dad banished him to the Canadian border — is being promoted to sergeant and sent to New York City, The Post has learned.

Pfeiffer’s elevation in the ranks of the New York State Police will take effect on Thanksgiving Day as the jobless former chief executive continues facing the fallout for a myriad of documented misdeeds.

“Effective 11/25,

Dane Pfeiffer will be promoted to the rank of sergeant and transferred to Troop NYC. This was the result of a competitive exam,” a State Police source familiar with the process told The Post on Wednesday.

The “exam was

April 6, 2019,” the source said. “They promote from a list generated from that exam.”

In October 2020, The Post exclusively reported that Cuomo requested that Pfeiffer (inset, top), 36, be transferred from his security detail after the governor found out about his romance with then-25year-old Cara Kennedy-Cuomo (inset, below).

Pfeiffer — a hunky former tennis player at Skidmore College who graduated from the Police Academy in 2015 — and Kennedy-Cuomo began getting hot and heavy in early 2020. They met when Pfeiffer served as one of Cuomo’s bodyguards.

On May 24, Pfeiffer asked for a “voluntary transfer” to Troop B in northeastern New York, a State Police spokesman told The Post at the time.

“He was transferred to keep him away from the daughter because the governor didn’t like whatever they were doing,” a source familiar with the situation previously told The Post.

Pfeiffer’s relationship with KennedyCuomo, now 26, necessitated his removal from her dad’s protective detail because of “the protocol of dignitary protection,” a lawenforcement source familiar with the situation told The Post last year.

But the move didn’t end the couple’s relationship, as Pfeiffer frequently returned to the Executive Mansion to pick up KennedyCuomo for dates, angering the former governor, according to a source.

Pfeiffer hadn’t committed misconduct, so in an informal disciplinary practice known as “highway therapy,” he was reassigned to a State Police station in Plattsburgh — about 25 miles south of the Quebec border and about 160 miles north of Albany, sources said.

It’s unclear if the trooper is still dating Kennedy-Cuomo.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi declined to comment. Pfeiffer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cuomo, who resigned in August, is mulling a campaign to serve as state attorney general, the post he held before he was elected governor.