NYPD’s Commissioner Dermot Shea announces retirement

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

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

Shea, the third white Irish man as the top cop under Mayor Bill de Blasio, was appointed police commissioner in November 2019 after former police leader James O’Neill retired. He, like his predecessor, was considered a protege of Bill Bratton.

Shea joined the force in 1991.

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 police 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.

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