Andrew Cuomo praised Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday for rolling out a plan to hire an additional 5,000 police officers — a move aimed at boxing Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani before Tuesday’s election.

“We have one of the lowest levels of police officers in modern political history. We’re losing police officers — one of the highest rates of attrition — because they’re so short staffed they have to work all the time,” the former governor said.

“They’re working weekends, they’re working overtime. So they’re leaving. Hiring 5,000 police officers will actually give them enough staff where people can work normal shifts.”

Adams’ plan would boost the NYPD’s headcount from its current level of just below 34,000 to 40,000 by 2029 — the most in nearly two decades.

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