Metro

Full-court pressure on Barclays cops

Brooklyn cops have been experimenting with new strategies to deal with growing pains from the Barclays Center — from lingering limos to berserk Beliebers.

Neighbors have complained about the influx of Lincoln Town Cars around the arena. Some concertgoers rent out the livery limos for the whole night — and after the drivers drop their patrons off, they loiter on residential streets until their clients are ready for pickup, often hours later.

“It’s become kind of a crisis,” said Gib Veconi, a Prospect Heights neighborhood activist.

In the past week, cops have experimented with a staging area for the limos on Atlantic Avenue between Sixth and Vanderbilt avenues, a two-block stretch that is not residential, and law-enforcement sources say it’s working well.

But residents who can’t find parking say it’s wrong to give away the space to the car services.

Since the arena opened, police sources said, it has taxed NYPD resources. The detail is just eight officers, a sergeant and a lieutenant, sources say.

“We were promised more [cops] than that,” said a source.

There was one challenge police weren’t prepared for — teen girls. After a recent Justin Bieber concert, cops were overwhelmed — by screaming girls.

“I didn’t anticipate the hysteria,” Deputy Inspector Michael Ameri said at a recent community council meeting. “Thank God nobody got hurt. It caught me by surprise.”