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The NYPD considered forming “DOA Teams” to help collect the mounting number of bodies left in the wake of the coronavirus, The Post has learned.

In an e-mail sent to precinct detective units Wednesday and obtained by The Post, brass asked for volunteers to form citywide squads to collect those deemed dead on arrival.

“The idea of creating a Borough DOA Team is being look [sic] at and we only want volunteers for it . . . no forcing anybody,” the message said. “It would be three teams (2 investigators per team).”

One team would work a 6 a.m.- to-2:30 p.m. shift, and the second a 6 p.m.-to-2:30 a.m. shift, according to the message.

The third group of body collectors would have more flexible hours.

The missive promised 60 hours of overtime per month for the grisly detail — twice the amount of OT allowed by the department ­under normal circumstances.

But police sources scoffed at the idea of a dead-body squad in the midst of the spreading COVID-19 virus — extra pay be damned.

“I would never do it for money,” one source said. “This could be life or death or long-term health disability. To make a few pennies extra is not worth the effects of it.”

Another source called the additional overtime “blood money.”

Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association union, said cops would have to be provided with proper training and equipment if they were enlisted in the grisly detail.

“It’s what we did after 9/11,” Mullins said. “A lot of people got sick and a lot of them are dead. It’s part of our job with the proper training, with the proper equipment and with the proper protocol.

“To involve people who have no background in it is putting people’s lives in jeopardy,” he added. “Right now, every cop is working under hazardous conditions.”

An NYPD spokesperson said that the department contemplated creating the DOA Team, but maintained that the idea had been “tabled.”

Still, one retired police source said it wasn’t a bad idea.

“People are dying at home,” he said. “So, if a 911 call comes in, patrol should respond.”

On Wednesday, there were 6,172 cops and department employees out sick — nearly 17 percent of the NYPD work force.

Of them, 1,418 have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said.

“I think we’re still climbing the hill,” Police Commissioner ­Dermot Shea said during an appearance on CNN Wednesday. “I’m eagerly awaiting when that inversion point happens where the number of sick people going out sick passess and crosses the people coming back.”