‘SHEA’ IT AIN’T SO, COMMISH

NYPD boss retiring

NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and another top cop have put in their retirement papers in the weeks before Mayorelect Eric Adams takes office, The Post has learned.

Shea (inset), 52, and First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker, 70, will step away from the department on Dec. 31, according to police sources.

The top cop’s driver, Detective Thomas Fitzgerald, also filed for retirement on Thursday, sources added.

The lame-duck police commissioner, with just a month left on the job, filed for retirement while overseas in Dubai on “routine travel” for the NYPD.

“On a regular basis, officials from the NYPD travel to countries where we have NYPD personnel posted as part of our foreign-liaison program, and representatives from those countries travel to New York City,” police spokesman Ed Riley said.

Shea, the third white Irish man as the top cop under Mayor de Blasio, was appointed commissioner in November 2019 after former head James O’Neill retired.

He, like his predecessor, was considered a protege of Bill Bratton.

Shea will be remembered for disbanding the NYPD’s anticrime unit — a controversial plainclothes patrol that accounted for a disproportionate amount of police shootings and, most notably, the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

But his two-year tenure was marred by headlines from the department’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd protests and the surge of gun violence — as well as his claims about bail reform leading to the uptick in shootings.

Tucker, the second in command in the NYPD, has been part of the department for 24 years. He had been passed over three times for the commissioner role.

Adams has publicly vowed to appoint a black woman as the next police commissioner and is expected to make an announcement next week.

He has narrowed down the national search to three cops, including former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best and NYPD Chief of Patrol Juanita Holmes.