An NYPD deputy inspector will be one proud papa this week when he watches all three of his sons graduate from the same Police Academy class.
“It feels amazing. I couldn’t have planned it any better,” said the father, Anthony Favale, 52, a 30-year veteran of the NYPD.
“I let the kids make their own decision, and it just so happened that they chose the Police Department. And the fact that it’s happening all at the same time is like winning the lottery.”
The Staten Island cop’s sons — Stephen, 24, and 22-year-old twins Alec and John — will join more than 1,200 other cadets as they are sworn in Tuesday at Madison Square Garden.
Anthony is assigned to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Bureau and was once in charge of efforts to combat human trafficking.
One of his biggest busts came in January 2014, when he and his vice unit took down a prostitution ring that was hoping to cash in on the crowds for that year’s Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium.
Despite his decorated career, Anthony Favale said his proudest moment will be when he sees his sons follow in his footsteps.
“It was always a hope of mine to have three kids in the same career, let alone same class,” he said. “I thought it would be too much of a fantasy to go down this way, but the planets were aligned.”
The boys’ mom, Stephanie, said that while she always expected one of them to join the force, she never imagined all three would.
She insisted their line of work doesn’t worry her.
“If their careers go in that direction, so be it,’’ she said. “All I want is for my kids to be happy. To me, that’s successful. It’s about doing good for other people and being happy with yourself.”
The boys said they were eager for their father to see them sworn in.
“What’s going to be even better than completing the academy is seeing how happy he is going to be,” Alec Favale said.
Stephen Favale said: “Our father is very successful, and we are very proud of him. You really do need three sets of feet to fill his shoes.”
John Favale said he was thrilled, too.
“I’ve waited my whole life for this, and to have my brothers there with me, graduating by my side, it’s a dream come true,” he said.
After graduation, the brothers will go their separate ways. Stephen will head to the 120th Precinct on Staten Island, John to the 60th in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and Alec to the 6th in the West Village.
Their dad, a resident of Prince’s Bay, had been a K-9 cop with both the 120th and 60th precincts.
He said he would give his patrolman’s badge to John, because, of the three boys, John had harbored a dream of being a cop the longest.
“I said that now whoever makes sergeant first will get my sergeant shield,” Anthony Favale recalled.
The brothers’ aunt — a 28-year NYPD transit cop — will also be at their graduation, as well as a cousin who is a rookie in Brooklyn.
Anthony said he was not nervous for his sons.
“I have all the confidence in the world. They’re not cowboys. They’re very logic-based and very tempered,’’ he said.
Still, “when it comes to Alec being in the 6th Precinct and the fact that Manhattan can tend to be on high alert and get terrorism threats, I can get uncomfortable when I start to think about it and get fixated on it.”