No city service is more vital than law enforcement, so it’s great to see former Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch off to such an encouraging start in cleaning up the NYPD, as its new boss.
The need for major house-cleaning at the Police Department was painfully obvious even before the bombshell sex-for-overtime scandal erupted last week.
And Tisch — tapped by Mayor Adams and sworn in just a month ago — has already been giving her broom a robust workout.
Over last weekend alone, she moved 29 officers into new jobs, including 16 who’d earned more than $100,000 in OT last year.
She accepted the resignation of the force’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey — who quit after The Post uncovered allegations he demanded sexual favors from a subordinate in exchange for overtime.
Tisch also pushed out Internal Affairs Bureau Chief Michael Iglesias for blowing off her requests to probe Maddrey for OT abuse, notably the overtime pay he granted Lt. Quathisha Epps.