Now they’ll be tasked with attempting to wash up the metropolis.

The NYPD is dispatching its plant managers — who often spend their days doing maintenance at police precincts — back on the streets as the division battles a staffing scarcity and rising crime, The Put up has realized.

The change is a part of the NYPD’s “effort to maximise the variety of uniformed members assigned to carry out patrol duties,” in keeping with an inner memo reviewed by The Put up.

The uniformed members of the drive assigned as plant managers in patrol, transit and housing bureaus will now must doubtlessly mop up greater messes throughout the metropolis, whereas civilian maintenance staff take over their duties, the NYPD mentioned.

The memo advised the cops they’d be returning to “operational duties” like day by day patrol and transit practice runs, and the division mentioned its plant supervisor position could be discontinued. It was not instantly clear when the memo was despatched.

The switch-up is bound to be a startling shift to the plant managers, whose duties often embrace emptying rubbish bins and ensuring cops have a cushty lounge, a police supply mentioned.

Every of the 77 precincts had a plant supervisor previous to the memo, the supply added, and the place was in excessive demand amongst New York’s Best.

“Cops would kill their moms for the plant supervisor spot,” mentioned a retired NYPD officer who used to have the plum gig.

It’s unclear what number of cops are anticipated to be impacted by the memo. The NYPD didn’t return a request for remark Sunday.

The choice comes amid an enormous cop exodus from the NYPD, with 2,465 cops submitting to go away the division this yr — 42% greater than the 1,731 who exited at the identical time final yr. Extra cops have additionally been hanging up their holsters earlier than reaching the 20 years required for a full pension.