Leadfoots, beware: The odds of getting a speeding ticket in New York City are about to go way up.
The Police Department is adding 200 radar guns to its arsenal — more than quadrupling the scant 56 now in the hands of cops in the city’s 77 precincts.
Chief Thomas Chan, head of the NYPD’s Transportation Bureau, testified before a City Council committee Monday that cops are already getting training in how to use the devices.
Chan also said traffic enforcement would be made part of an officer’s daily work assignment.
Some legislators were skeptical about the crackdown.
“Let’s be honest: Recruits don’t sign up for the Police Academy in their minds to write speeding tickets,” said Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Queens).
But Chan said the NYPD is committed to making the streets safer for pedestrians and motorists.
“My goal is to change the mindset of the individual officers who are on daily patrol in the precinct,” he explained.
Chan was one of several witnesses at the hours-long hearing, the first to examine Mayor de Blasio’s sweeping “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024.
There were 286 people killed in traffic accidents citywide last year.
Meanwhile, Council Member Chaim Deutsch (D-Brooklyn) suggested some cops were being overzealous in his Sheepshead Bay/Midwood district, where Orthodox women have complained about being pulled over for fixing their wigs because it appears they’re using cellphones.