Mayor Eric Adams has named a new head of the NYPD’s independent oversight board — installing a pro-police ally in another attempt to set up political roadblocks for far-left successor Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned.

Hizzoner quietly tapped former journalist Pat Smith as interim chair of the Civilian Complaint Review Board this week, filling the top post of the civilian watchdog agency, at least temporarily, according to sources with knowledge of the personnel move.

Smith — who was one of three CCRB members who sided with the cops in the fatal shooting of mentally ill Queens man Win Rosario last year — isn’t expected to make substantial waves with just a few weeks left in the Adams admin, but he could create political problems for Mayor-elect Mamdani.

Mamdani would be forced to f

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