Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday launched a new NYPD unit to focus solely on domestic abuse cases in the Big Apple — calling it the largest squad of its kind in the nation.

The department’s new Domestic Violence Unit, which will begin to roll out next week, will designate 450 cops to deal solely with domestic abuse cases in the five boroughs, while creating new positions to help the city’s prosecutors work to resolve the cases, Adams told reporters.

“We know we must do a better job of eradicating violence that we are seeing in our neighborhoods,” the mayor said during a City Hall press conference with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. “This new unit will handle the entire domestic violence process for victims.

“I’m not new to this fight,” Adams added. “I know it well. I know it as a police officer and also growing up in a household where an abusive parent can exist. I know we can do more. Domestic violence rips people apart. It impacts families and traumatizes those who are victims.”

City officials said “intimate partner violence” was up 29% last year, and that nearly 40% of felony assault cases in the Big Apple since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic involve domestic violence.

“Since 2020, domestic violence incidents in New York City have increased by 41%, and that is based only on the survivors who came forward,” Tisch said. “We know that the true impact is far wider.

“For the first time in more than 30 years, the NYPD is making a fundamental change to how we respond to investigate and follow through on domestic violence cases, with the creation of our new domestic violence squads within the NYPD detective bureau,” the top cop said.

The new unit will be headed by NYPD Deputy Chief John Corbisiero, who will report to the department’s Citywide Investigations Unit, officials said.

The plan is for 450 cops to be transferred to the detective bureau from the patrol services and housing bureaus to lead domestic violence investigations, while establishing “Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Investigative Card Teams,” a squad of eight sergeants and 40 officers and detectives who will track down wanted domestic violence offenders.

Finally, the initiative will designate a domestic violence counsel and a director of prevention and intervention to work with prosecutors to bring the cases to fruition.

The new unit, announced just two months before Adams leaves office, appears to fly in the face of the plan laid out by mayoral runner Zohran Mamdani, which takes domestic violence cases away from the NYPD and leans on civilian professionals and advocates to work the cses.

Mamdani’s campaign platform advocates for a new $1 billion Department of Community Safety that would respond to mental health crises and other situations usually handled by the police.

Asked about the curious timing of his NYPD unit, Adams shrugged it off.

“What our transition team is going to do, we’re going to show all of these initiatives, and the next mayor will come in and then make a determination what they want to continue and what they want to bring to the table,” the mayor said.

“You know, we’re going to turn over the city in good shape for good initiatives and good programs, and the next administration will have to make a determination on what they are going to do with the excellent conditions we are leaving the city in.” Adams added.