Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Saturday an expanded initiative to keep New Yorkers safe on subway and address transit crime.

“My top priority as the governor of the state of New York is to keep New Yorkers safe,” she said at a press conference at the 1 Vanderbilt subway station. “That means on our streets, in their homes, and on our subways.”

Hochul said the “Cops, Cameras, and Care” plan is a “beefing up” of the police presence on subway platforms and cars.

“We can tell New Yorkers all the time that we’ve decreased crimes in certain areas, but if New Yorkers don’t feel safe, we are failing and we’re not going to take that out of the equation,” Adams said at the press conference.

The NYPD and MTA will add about 1,200 additional overtime officer shifts at over 300 stations every day — adding up to about 10,000 more overtime patrol hours daily, officials said.

The MTA Police and the NYPD will work together to increase their presence on platforms and trains, following Adams’ Subway  Safety Plan that he released back in February.

According to Adams, officials conducted over 756,000 safety inspections throughout the subway system.

“Keeping our subway safe is of paramount importance of NYPD and MTA, and we’re pleased to partner in this endeavor,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Saturday. “I want people to know that the NYPD will never waver from that commitment to everyone in the city across the system.”

She added the NYPD is launching its transit safety awareness campaign with communication as a crucial part of the plan.

“We need the public to know that the police are here for them,” Sewell said.

According to a press release, the MTA Police will be deployed into the subway system at four commuter railroad hubs — Penn Station, Grand Central Station, Atlantic Terminal, and the Sutphin-Archer station in Jamaica.

The MTA also plans on continuing to install cameras in every subway car to further security coverage and have train conductors announce to risers when there are police officers at a station.

“There were, let’s be honest, a long time elected officials looked at the MTA and kept the challenges the MTA comes across cyclically at arm’s length,” MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said at the press conference, adding that Adams and Hochul are “passionate” on the issue.

According to Hochul, “forthe first time ever,” the New York State Office of Mental Health is launching the “transition to home initiative,” and will have two new dedicated units at psychiatric centers to help those experiencing serious mental health illness with a total of 50 inpatient beds.

OMH will also expand on crisis prevention training for MTA Police, the NYPD and EMS/EMT workers to teach them the best practices for approaching individuals who are experiencing homelessness and transporting individuals in need of a psychiatric evaluation, according to a press release.

According to Hochul, they will fund the deployment of additional officers from the state’s public emergency fund.

“New Yorkers must be able to ride the subway system with confidence that they are protected from crime, harassments and threats, and this is what we’re zeroing in on,” Adams said.

In response to the initiative, Patrick J. Lynch, Police Benevolent Association president, said the plan is “unsustainable.”

He said the NYPD is more than 1,000 officers below its budgeted headcount, and the increased workflow is “crushing the cops who remain.”

“Our city must immediately boost pay and improve working conditions in order to recruit and retain enough police officers,” Lynch wrote in a statement. “That is the only way to provide real safety in the subway, rather than the illusion of ‘omnipresence.’”