Still reeling from a long list of embarrassing security snafus, the Port Authority this morning is going to name former NYPD boss Joseph Dunne to the new post of security chief, The Post has learned.
Dunne is going to oversee the 1,500-person PA police force as well as all other security staffs at the agency’s facilities, which include the region’s bridges, tunnels, airports and the World Trade Center.
A former chief of department and first deputy commissioner of the NYPD, Dunne is going to earn about $250,000 in the new post, sources said. He is going to start next month. Dunne retired from the NYPD shortly after 9/11.
The announcement comes as the PA copes with a litany of headline-grabbing blunders, including: revelations that a top Newark airport security official was a wanted man working under an assumed name for two decades; the failure of a brand-new perimeter security system at Kennedy Airport to keep a jetskier from making it on to guarded runways; and an incident last year when a pedestrian was able to enter the PATH tubes and walk all the way to New Jersey from Manhattan without being noticed.