Now they’ll beryllium tasked with trying to cleanable up the city.

The NYPD is dispatching its works managers — who usually walk their days doing upkeep astatine constabulary precincts — backmost connected the streets as the section battles a staffing shortage and rising crime, The Post has learned.

The alteration is portion of the NYPD’s “effort to maximize the fig of uniformed members assigned to execute patrol duties,” according to an interior memo reviewed by The Post.

The uniformed members of the unit assigned arsenic works managers successful patrol, transit and lodging bureaus volition present person to perchance mop up bigger messes crossed the city, portion civilian attraction workers instrumentality implicit their duties, the NYPD said.

The determination is portion of the NYPD’s “effort to maximize the fig of uniformed members assigned to execute patrol duties” amid unit shortages and rising crime.REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

The memo told the cops they would beryllium returning to “operational duties” similar regular patrol and transit bid runs, and the section said its works manager relation would beryllium discontinued. It was not instantly wide erstwhile the memo was sent.

The switch-up is definite to beryllium a startling displacement to the works managers, whose tasks usually include emptying garbage bins and making definite cops person a comfy lounge, a constabulary root said.

Each of the 77 precincts had a works manager anterior to the memo, the root added, and the presumption was successful precocious request among New York’s Finest.

“Cops would termination their mothers for the works manager spot,” said a retired NYPD serviceman who utilized to person the plum gig.

It’s unclear however galore cops are expected to beryllium impacted by the memo. The NYPD didn’t instrumentality a petition for remark Sunday.

The determination comes amid a monolithic bull exodus from the NYPD, with 2,465 constabulary officers filing to permission the section this twelvemonth — 42% much than the 1,731 who exited astatine the aforesaid clip past year. More cops person besides been hanging up their holsters earlier reaching the 20 years required for a afloat pension.