Secretive T police pension bosses finally unlocked their list of annual payouts to retirees yesterday after stubbornly defying a court order, Herald public records requests and even calls from the Baker administration for trans­parency.

See the MBTA Police Pension report here

The long-awaited tally from the MBTA Police Association Retirement Plan comes as more tax­payer help is being sought. Highlights include:

• Former MBTA Transit Police Chief Paul S. MacMillan, who retired in November 2014, topped the list with an annual retirement benefit of $119,700. He was the only retiree with a six-figure amount.

• Former Deputy Chief Lewis Best, who retired in December 2013, was second on the list with a pension of $94,737.

• The longest continuous pension belongs to a T officer who has been receiving benefits since he retired on July 1, 1986. His annual pension is $13,276.

MacMillan and Best did not return messages seeking comment yesterday.

Greg Sullivan, the research direc­tor at the Pioneer Institute, said the bigger issue is the un­funded liability of the system, which taxpayers are also on the hook for.

“Beyond the numbers on that sheet, the MBTA riders and the taxpayers owe another $92 million for the MBTA police pension system,” said Sullivan. “They also owe $830 million for the regular pension system.”

The police retirement fund had fiercely fought efforts to make public its pension payroll, even though taxpayers spent $2.3 million on the system in 2015. Tax­payers are projected to have to shell out 25 percent more than that — a total of $2.9 million — next fiscal year.

“We are pleased that the PARP has taken this first step toward a more transparent operation, and we hope they will move quickly toward full compliance with the open records law that Governor Baker recently enacted,” MBTA Chief Administrator Brian Shortsleeve said in a statement.

The retirement fund has oper­ated under an unusual cloud of?secrecy­ for a taxpayer-funded agency and finally divulged the pension infor­mation, kicking and screaming the entire way.

The fund denied­ requests from both the Herald and Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack for the public release of the information in March 2015.

The fund’s executive director, Sidney Chase, declined­ to comment.