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The NYPD needs to get tougher on cops convicted of domestic violence, a police oversight panel says.

The Commission to Combat Police Corruption reviewed police-involved domestic violence cases from 2013, and found that harsher punishments were deserved in seven of 88 of them.

In at least two, the cops should have been fired.

“If there is clear and convincing evidence of a prior physical domestic history . . . the Commission believes there should be a presumption that termination is the appropriate penalty,” the panel concluded in a report quietly released in late 2014.

Police officials wouldn’t say whether they’ve incorporated the commission’s recommendations into departmental policy. A domestic-violence conviction disqualifies a potential police recruit.

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