By N. Clark Judd

The commander of the Riverdale/ Kingsbridge area’s police precinct has been promoted.

On Aug. 28, 50th Precinct Capt. John D’Adamo became Deputy Inspector D’Adamo — the latest in a long line of local commanders to come to Riverdale and get new pins for his collar.

Deputy Inspector Dermot Shea came to the precinct in September 2006 as a captain, was promoted in late 2007, and in February 2008, left for the 44th Precinct, which includes the Highbridge, Mt. Eden and Concourse Village neighborhoods. He was the sixth of the last seven 50th Precinct commanders to be promoted and then transferred. D.I. D’Adamo, who became Riverdale’s top police officer in February 2008, is the seventh precinct commander to receive a promotion.

So is D.I. D’Adamo also on his way to what they call, in police parlance, a “busier precinct?”

He hopes not, he says.

“I love it here in the Five-O precinct. I love everyone here in the Five- O,” D.I. D’Adamo said.

While one Upper Manhattan precinct has been struggling to find a serial robber who preys on women late at night, and law enforcement officers elsewhere in the Bronx recently had to identify the body of another young woman found stabbed and dumped in the trash, complaints in the Riverdale/ Kingsbridge area are usually less dire.

At a recent community council meeting, the complaint that most stood out to D.I. D’Adamo was about the return of rambunctious Manhattan College students and the consequent repopulation of the bars on West 238th Street. People playing basketball in area parks after hours are a recurring source of consternation.

Which isn’t to say D.I. D’Adamo’s police officers aren’t busy. On the wall of his office is the “Inspector D’Adamo Gun Board,” with pictures from the aftermath of each of the 22 arrests made in the precinct for firearm-related offenses. Laid out on tables — sometimes with police officers posing nearby like fishermen after landing a trophy bass — are hauls ranging from a Colt AR-15, the semi-automatic cousin of the M-16 assault rifle used by U.S. soldiers, to a .22-caliber handgun.