NYS police department blasted for posting stock pics of their ‘officers’ on its website: ‘Fake black dude’

A Rockland County police department is red-faced after cop profiles posted on its homepage turned out to be stock photos that came with the software.

The embarrassing oversight by the Stony Point Police Department was exposed by a tipster to News12 Westchester this week, who noted that the faces on the small-town department’s “Our Officers” page — which has since been removed, just didn’t seem to fit.

“I know it’s suspect because on their website they have some fake black dude as one of their officers,” the anonymous reader wrote to the outlet on Instagram. “And the reason I know it’s fake is because the image appears on another police website.”

The Stony Point Police Department’s “Our Officers” online page has one glitch: The cops don’t work there. Google Maps

The department has several Hispanic officers but no black cops.

A News12 review found the same six officer profiles on at least a half dozen other law enforcement websites as far off as Lockport, Louisiana — and one “cop” identified as “Deputy Sheriff Adam Duncan” appears on at least eight other websites.

“They’re both using the same theme,” Steven Franzken, owner of Mid-Hudson Web in upstate Dutchess County, told the outlet. “When you install it, it comes with a predefined layout and images, so the bottom line is they just rolled out that.

A News12 investigation found that the Stony Point police website profiles cops that don’t work there. Facebook/Stony Point Police Department

“That should be a sign to the web designer that they need to change that, and obviously they didn’t,” Franzken added. “It’s very amateur and misleading.”

Stony Point resident Maryann Albin told the station she doesn’t blame the police department, which “is busy enough doing other stuff.

“The developer should be the one held accountable,” Albin said.

Stony Point police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.