Hochul’s state-funded proposal puts NYPD officers on every train for eight hours per night for the next six months.

The governor responded to a rash of violent incidents on the city’s subway system by announcing the deployment of police officers to every single overnight train for the next six months.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed Tuesday she wants police officers on every New York City overnight subway train for the next six months.

In a statement, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Hochul’s plan will allow for two officers to ride every overnight train. But she said more needs to be done to deal with the ongoing issue of repeat offenders who commit a disproportionate number of crimes in the subways, which she called the “root of the issue.”

Mind the gap. Straphangers tentatively cheered Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to put New York’s Finest on every overnight subway train Wednesday — but it remained unclear how the NYPD would manage to staff the new effort,

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state will be paying to put police on every overnight subway train in NYC for the next six months, “to reduce crime and the fear of crime” in the MTA’s mass transit system.