Expecting a crowd of one million at the West Indian American Day Parade on Monday, the NYPD will have its largest security detail of the year on duty to assure the event — as well as the related J’Ouvert celebration — are safe, NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch said Friday.

"This will be the biggest police deployment of the year, even biggest than New Years Eve, Times Square, even bigger than the deployment for July 4th," Tisch said at a pre-parade news conference with Mayor Eric Adams in Brooklyn.

Tisch wouldn’t disclose the exact number of officers who will be on duty but it will be in the thousands, including members of the emergency services unit, counterterrorism command, the bomb squad and drone operations. Tisch also noted that while many officers will be in uniform, others will not

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