Exclusive | Horndog NYPD capt. and jealous cop clique torment female officer after she spurns his advances, lawsuit claims
A depraved NYPD commander turned his precinct into a perverted frat house, pitting a jealous cabal of cops against a female officer who rejected his relentless raunchy advances, according to an explosive lawsuit filed this week.Maria Delacruz, 33, alleges Capt.Amanjeet Sandhu, her precinct commander in Transit District 1 on the Upper West Side in 2023, “declared his love” for her and “expressed his desire to become her lover rather than remain her supervisor,” according to the suit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.Delacruz feared retaliation, so she initially kept quiet about the alleged sexual harassment, she said.“I didn’t feel like there was anyone I could go to,” the mother of an 8-year-old son told The Post in an exclusive interview.Sandhu took over the command in January 2023 and by March was regularly assigning Delacruz to be his driver, according to the suit.Throughout 2023, Sandhu “increasingly directed sexually explicit comments toward her,” according to the suit.He commented on her “breasts, buttocks, face, eyes and body, including referring to her as a Latina with large buttocks and making remarks about her ‘booty,’” according to the lawsuit. “If I was your man, I would slap that ass all the time,” Sandhu told her, according to the suit filed by lawyer Eric Sanders.“Eventually, Delacruz spent entire tours in Sandhu’s office or accompanying him in his departmental vehicle,” according to the suit.When she stood up to leave his office, he would make comments that included, “That ass is huge!” according to the lawsuit.He would also suggest she remove her bullet proof vest and then stare at her breasts and bite his lip creepily when she talked to him, the suit alleges.He also told her about “dreams in which he was having sex with her,” she claims.Delacruz was repulsed by the constant comments about her body and told him, “What the f–k? Stop” to no avail, according to the suit.
On one occasion, Dela...