NYPD commissioner axes three senior officials

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton shook up the top NYPD brass Tuesday — telling three senior officials they were out.

In face-to-face meetings at Police Headquarters, Bratton notified Chief of Detectives Philip Pulaski and Internal Affairs Bureau head Charles Campisi that they were not part of the department’s future plans and would be replaced, sources said.

Bratton also said he was replacing Deputy Commissioner of Trials Marvin Karopkin.

Bratton signaled he would clean house at One Police Plaza shortly after being named by then-Mayor-elect de Blasio in December to replace outgoing Commissioner Ray Kelly.

Bratton asked 200 of the NYPD brass for their resumes, with Pulaski and Campisi’s names high on the list.

Campisi, a cop for 41 years, headed the IAB, which investigates police wrongdoing, for two decades. He presided over the overhaul of the bureau in the 1990s and saw it expand to more than 650 uniformed officers.

But the bureau under Campisi was criticized for its slow response to the NYPD’s ticket-fixing scandal and other embarrassments. There had been some expectation in the department that he would retire when Kelly left on Jan. 1.

Pulaski, a 33-year veteran of the force, was named to head the detective bureau in 2009.

No time for the departure of Pulaski, Campisi and Karopkin was given, and no official announcement of their leaving was made.

Deputy Chief Robert Boyce, who was head of the Bronx Detective Borough command and is currently head of the Manhattan Detective Borough command, was considered by insiders a top contender for Pulaski’s job.

Meanwhile, Bratton gave one of the holdovers from the Kelly era a promotion.

Billionaire heiress Jessica Tisch, who had been Kelly’s director of planning for counter terrorism, was named deputy commissioner for information technology. Tisch, 32, has a law degree and an MBA from Harvard. She has two brothers on the city Police Foundation board.

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