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Mayor Eric Adams has tapped his younger brother to serve as a deputy NYPD commissioner, The Post has learned.
Bernard Adams, a 56-year-old retired NYPD sergeant, will oversee governmental affairs, he confirmed Friday. But the full scope of his responsibilities was not immediately clear.
Internal documents obtained by The Post show Bernard Adams listed as a deputy commissioner on the official NYPD roster.
A civilian post, deputy police commissioners typically make around $242,000, although it was not immediately clear what his salary would be in the department.
Bernard Adams’ LinkedIn profile lists his current job as assistant director for parking at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he’s been employed since 2011.
Neither City Hall nor the NYPD immediately returned a request for comment.
News of the appointment of Bernard Adams, who responded to the Sept. 11 terror attacks while working as a cop at Brooklyn’s 88th Precinct, comes hours after Eric Adams appointed longtime friend and confidant Philip Banks as deputy mayor of public safety.
Banks’ brother, David, was previously tapped to be the new New York City schools chancellor.
The move also comes a day after a shake-up of the police executive staff that forced out Internal Affairs boss Joseph Reznick and the head of the department’s employee relations, Robert Ganley. Both had been collecting a hefty pension as well as their lucrative taxpayer-funded salary.
Big Apple mayors have hired family members in the past. Michael Bloomberg onboarded his daughter, Emma, and sister, Marjorie Tavern, while mayor but they worked for free and did not carry such prestigious titles.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray played an outsized role in his administration — most notably her role heading the failed $1.3 billion mental health initiative ThriveNYC — but was only officially acting as the city’s First Lady. She was barred from collecting a salary by city nepotism rules.
It’s unclear if those rules would also bar Eric Adams’ brother from pulling in a salary.
Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks
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