The former head of a Connecticut police department pleaded guilty along with an accomplice Monday to rigging the search for his job to ensure he was tapped for the six-figure position, federal authorities said Monday.

Former top cop Armando Perez and the city’s former acting personnel director, David Dunn, each face up to 10 years in prison for rigging the 2018 police chief exam and for lying to federal agents who were investigating the fraud, prosecutors said.

They’ll be sentenced in federal court in White Plains in January, authorities said.

“Today’s pleas are a significant step in ensuring that Bridgeport’s citizens and police officers have leaders with integrity who are committed to enforcing, not breaking, the law,” Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss said in a statement.

Dunn allegedly slipped Perez material that was included in the exam and worked to make sure scoring criteria favored him in the 2018 exam. The chief then tapped two other Bridgeport cops to secretly pen his written exam.

Both then lied to FBI investigators in an attempted cover-up.

The case was prosecuted by the US Attorney Office’s Public Corruption Unit in the Southern District of New York.