Boring longtime public servant Chauncey Parker tapped to fill role of scandal-ridden Adams crony Phil Banks

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced his pick for the city’s top public safety role left vacant by his scandal-plagued pal Phil Banks — and sources hailed the replacement as a welcome “boring” alternative.Chauncey Parker, who has worked nearly 40 years in law enforcement, will take over the deputy mayor for public safety post left vacant after Banks resigned under a cloud of federal scrutiny.The appointment of Parker drew a recently rare show of praise for Adams amid his criminal indictment and corruption probes encircling cronies he installed in high-level roles.“If the mayor had appointed all these boring people to start maybe he wouldn’t be under indictment,” one Council source quipped to The Post.Banks was already somewhat infamous when Adams tapped him in 2022 to serve as deputy mayor for public safety — a position that no New York City mayor had used since David Dinkins in the 1990s.The former NYPD official was an unindicted co-conspirator in a police bribery scandal, which yielded photos of Banks floating in the Dead Sea as evidence in a federal trial.Banks also needed a special waiver to collect a both his cop pension and the $250,000 salary for the City Hall job.As deputy mayor, Banks continued to court controversy.Adams’ first NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell resigned because of frustrations from Banks and his allies meddling with the police department, sources have said.But Banks’ decades-old friendship with Adams kept him insulated — at least until federal agents knocked on his door Sept.4 and seized his electronic devices in what sources have said is a corruption investigation.After weeks of pressure to resign — a span that saw several other top officials ensnared in the feds’ web do so, including Banks’ brother, Schools Chancellor David Banks — Banks finally submitted his walking papers Oct.

6.The position was one of at least 10 high-level spots in Adams’ administration without a permanent head amid a wave of departur...