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The NYPD may still have to make more cuts to the department next year — even with the next five police academy classes already being axed as part of this year’s migrant cost cutting, the mayor revealed Tuesday.

“We don’t want to do anything that’s going to endanger public safety, that’s the foundation that the city is built on,” Mayor Eric Adams said, but conceded, “Everything is on the table.”

The NYPD, along with FDNY and DSNY, appeared to be spared from the next round of cuts after a memo went out to city agencies from City Budget Director Jacques Jiha that called on the city to slash migrant costs by 20% in January.

“NYPD, FDNY, and DSNY are exempted from the January PEG [program to eliminate the gap] out of concern that additional budget cuts at this time could impact public safety, health and cleanliness,” he wrote in the memo obtained by The Post.

But the mayor reopened the door to more budget tighteninglater next year as part of an upcoming third round of 5% cost-cutting to account for the ballooning migrant crisis.


  The NYPD, along with FDNY and DSNY, appeared to be spared from the next round of cuts. REUTERS The NYPD, along with FDNY and DSNY, appeared to be spared from the next round of cuts. REUTERS

“If need be, they will have to be included in the next round also if we can’t get to the numbers that we want because we have to balance the budget,” the mayor said during his weekly off-topic press conference.

The NYPD saw some of the most significant cuts as part of this month’s budget changes — the first of three 5% cuts by next fiscal year — with the cancellation of the next five police academy classes.

As a result, the department’s uniformed staffing figures are expected to dip to 29,000 for the first time since the early 1990s. The department has already been decimated by retirements and resignations over the last few years, with the headcount dipping by nearly 3,000.


  A memo went out to city agencies from City Budget Director Jacques Jiha that called on the city to slash migrant costs by 20% in January. Gregory P. Mango A memo went out to city agencies from City Budget Director Jacques Jiha that called on the city to slash migrant costs by 20% in January. Gregory P. Mango

The reduction is part of the newly unveiled 2024 fiscal plan, which will also force FDNY members on “long-term light duties” — which are firefighters injured on the job or are out sick — out of the department.

The Department of Education is also expected to slash $547 million from this year’s budget alone under the plan.

In addition, the sanitation department will do less trash pick up near parks and pedestrian walkways and remove a number of litter bins throughout the city.


  “We don’t want to do anything that’s going to endanger public safety, that’s the foundation that the city is built on,” Mayor Eric Adams said, but conceded, “Everything is on the table.” Paul Martinka “We don’t want to do anything that’s going to endanger public safety, that’s the foundation that the city is built on,” Mayor Eric Adams said, but conceded, “Everything is on the table.” Paul Martinka

The city has been trying to make up for the $12 billion price tag that has come with caring for the more than 140,000 asylum seekers who have come through New York City since the start of the crisis in the spring of 2022.

Many New Yorkers, though, have decried the decrease in officers and hiring freezes across the board.

“Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s. We cannot go back there,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said when the cuts were announced.

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