Metro

NYPD brass shifted

The head of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Service Unit has been transferred in the wake of two controversial fatal shootings by its members, police sources said yesterday.

Deputy Chief James Molloy, 51, will be the new head of Queens detectives.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was especially unhappy with the shooting of an emotionally disturbed man, Mohamed Bah, who had barricaded himself in his Harlem apartment Sept. 25. Afterward, Kelly ordered that the duty captain and duty chief must be on scene at any barricade or hostage situation before cops approach the door, the sources said.

The other shooting took place Oct. 4, when an ESU cop shot National Guardsman Noel Polanco when he was stopped for driving erratically and cutting off the cops’ unmarked vehicle on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens.