Mayor Mamdani’s new deputy mayor for community safety is an anti-cop radical who previously led a George Soros-funded lobbying group that pushed defunding police and abolishing jails, The Post has learned.

Renita Francois was appointed last week to the $290,000-a-year post and will head the socialist mayor’s new “Office of Community Safety,” which aims to overhaul how the NYPD responds to 911 calls.

Francois, 42, spent the past four years working for West Hollywood, Calif.-based Beyond Impact, most recently as its chief program officer.

The group’s pet programs include “Dream Defenders,” a self-described “black-led, feminist, socialist, abolitionist, and internationalist political formation fighting for a world without prisons, police, capitalism, and imperialism.”

Another, called “Movement for Black Lives Action,” embraces the “Defund the Police” movement, supports abolishing prisons and providing reparations for slavery descendants, and proclaims its “bold mission” includes bringing about “electoral justice” for Blacks, so they have better representation in government, according to its website.

Beyond Impact – which was rebranded in February after previously being named “Tides Advocacy”— and other offshoots of the Tides Network have received more than $51 million over the past decade from Soros’ hard-left grant-making network Open Society Foundation, records show.

More than $35 million went directly to Beyond Impact and was predominately spent backing initiatives that tried influencing elections and supported so-called criminal-justice reforms, like cashless bail.

Soros typically tries to keep a low profile, exerting influence by donating under the radar to lefty candidates — including former President Joe Biden soft-on crime district attorneys across the United States like Manhattan’s Alvin— and funneling money to liberal causes and groups.

Open Society Foundations and related nonprofits he founded have doled out more than $32 billion worldwide since 1984, according to its website.

Francois — who earned degrees at arch-liberal University of California, Berkeley and Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management — has no experience in law enforcement, according to her LinkedIn profile.

She joined the nonprofit in 2022 after spending the previous seven years working for far-left former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio as a top honcho in the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and oversaw its neighborhood safety action plan.

In her new City Hall role, she will oversee an Orwellian-titled office with just one other staffer — and a $260 million budget.

Her main goal will be figuring how best to shift responsibility for “nonviolent” 911 mental-health-emergency calls from the NYPD to social workers and other civilian responders.

In her new City Hall role, she will oversee an Orwellian-titled office with just one other staffer — and a $260 million budget.

The new office will also house existing city programs, including ones to combat hate crimes, reduce shootings through violence interrupters, and provide services to sexual assault victims.

Law enforcement experts, however, are questioning whether emergency response times will rise because dispatchers might have to spend extra time deciding whether cops should be sent on calls involving the mentally ill.

“I don’t want to predict this, but with my experience I think it’s just going to go very bad quickly if there’s confusion,” said retired NYPD Detective Michael Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who served in the NYPD for three decades before retiring in 2019.

“I think [the new office] shows a little bit of naiveness on the part of the mayor here. . . . This administration’s trying to reinvent the wheel,” he added.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch raised serious questions about whether the office is even necessary, while testifying under oath last week during a City Council hearing.

She estimated only about 2% of calls for service would be removed from her department’s jurisdiction and diverted to the new office, citing 2024 figures showing nearly 86,000 of the 4.3 million received that year were nonviolent mental health calls.

“I believe that you need to send the police when there’s a call for a violent person,” she said.