The NYPD’s hot-headed Deputy Commissioner of Public Information — who once called a New York Post reporter a “ f–king scumbag ” — was demoted this week, police sources said.
Tarik Sheppard, a 21-year veteran of the NYPD, will be an assistant chief and commanding officer at the Interagency Operations Division as of Dec. 26, NYPD paperwork shows.
“That’s definitely a downward move but a soft landing,” a police source said of Sheppard, a friend of Mayor Adams.
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It’s not clear exactly why he was booted from his post, but Sheppard, 48, got into a kerfuffle with then-acting Police Commissioner Tom Donlon at the NYC Marathon in November and has had run-ins with the media.