Another day, another damning allegation excerpted from Mark Towhey’s forthcoming book on Rob Ford.

Hot on the heels of a sensational excerpt published this past Wednesday by Maclean’s magazine, the website Politico.com provided another sneak peek at the pages of Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable on Saturday — including allegations from the ex-mayor’s former chief of staff, Towhey, that Toronto police looked the other way on several occasions when Ford was pulled over driving drunk. (The Star cannot independently verify Towhey’s account.)

In the second of two snippets posted on Politico.com under the collective headline “The Mayor Is A F---ing Addict!,” Towhey recounts how he instituted an office “policy” after one co-worker in the mayor’s office watched Ford chug a 12-oz. bottle of vodka behind the wheel one day whilst giving him a lift in his infamous black Escalade: “No staffers were permitted to be in a vehicle operated by the mayor. They could ride in Rob’s car if someone else drove. If Rob was driving, they were to follow him in a city car.”

This wasn’t the first time Towhey had heard tales of Ford drinking and driving, he writes. “Two senior members of the Toronto Police Service had told me officers had pulled over the mayor’s car late at night on multiple occasions and driven him home rather than charging him for driving under the influence.”

He didn’t report Ford to the police, he adds, because “there was nothing the police could do with the information” after the fact. “Besides, as I mentioned, they already knew the mayor was driving drunk, and weren’t doing anything about it.”

Provided with the relevant excerpts on Saturday, Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash said he’d heard similar stories circulating before but had never been presented with any evidence that they were actually true.

“These comments have circulated for a number of years and no one has ever, as far as I’m aware, put names, dates, places or anything to them so it strikes me at this point that it’s second- or third-hand gossip,” he said. “And as far as his second point about they knew he was driving drunk and weren’t doing anything about it, that’s simply not true . . .

“For him to say nothing was done, I can’t go into the specifics, but that’s just not true and I’m really at a loss to understand how Mr. Towhey could even come to that conclusion.”

Since the incidents described in Towhey’s excerpt Ford has since come clean, admitting to both crack-cocaine use and “drunken stupors” in his past.

Other topics covered in Politico.com’s excerpts from Uncontrollable include a thorough retelling of staffers’ attempts at damage control during a now-infamous St. Patrick’s Day 2012 binge — which left Ford literally falling-down drunk at an Esplanade bar, according to the excerpt — and Towhey’s concerns that the mayor was having money troubles.

Ford had previously paid his staff’s expenses out of his own pocket, but suddenly became much more tight-fisted in the middle of 2012, Towhey writes, and started asking staffers to instead put his expenses on their credit cards.

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“I wasn’t sure if this cash crunch was due to the hundreds of thousands of dollars he’d spent on legal bills defending himself against a number of lawsuits brought against him by political activists, or if he was burning it on his other, recreational uses,” states the excerpt.

Elsewhere, Towhey describes the job of chief of staff becoming “less about politics and more about protecting the staff from their mayor. It became about making sure Rob’s family was safe, and trying to get the mayor to agree to treatment — or at least trying to insulate him from the consequences of his actions and addictions. It became about keeping Rob from dying.”

Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable — How I Tried to Help the World’s Most Notorious Mayor is published on Oct. 27.