NEW YORK — Several former NYPD officials who held senior positions during Eric Adams’ mayoral administration received inflated pension benefits because of inconsistent records and calculations, according to a city Department of Investigation report released Thursday. The watchdog’s review focused on so-called Section 821 waivers, which allow NYPD employees to work temporarily for another city agency or the mayor’s office while retaining a police title tied to pension eligibility. Investigators found that the waivers were not consistently documented during the Adams administration and that the city’s Police Pension Fund sometimes applied the rules incorrectly. The report recommends recalculating the affected pensions and strengthening the process for approving and recording future waivers. Department of Investigation Commissioner Nadia Shihata said the errors left taxpayers responsible for benefits that some former officials were not legally entitled to receive. “Those pensions should be recalculated and adjusted properly,” Shihata said. Among the people identified is Kaz Daughtry, who served as Adams’ deputy mayor for public safety before later taking an immigration-related position in the Trump administration. Investigators said Daughtry agreed that his City Hall salary would not be included in his NYPD pension calculation. The pension fund nevertheless calculated his annual benefit at $153,199, rather than the $100,505 figure identified in the report as appropriate under the agreement. Daughtry said he did not remember knowingly signing such an agreement and requested the document and related records for review by his attorney. He said he would not have accepted the deputy mayor position if the condition had been clearly explained to him. Former Probation Commissioner Juanita Holmes also received a pension calculation based on her higher salary as a city commissioner, rather than her lower police salary, despite a similar agreement excluding the commissioner’s pay. Her pension calculation used a salary of $282,301 instead of $261,000, the report said. Holmes did not respond to a request for comment. The review found a separate problem involving Louis Molina, who led the Department of Correction and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and advised the mayor’s office. Molina did not receive an 821 waiver, but the pension fund mistakenly treated him as though he had one. His annual pension was set at $71,691 in late 2025, although the report said it should have been $49,739. Former NYPD spokespeople Eugene Whyte and Edelle James were also identified as receiving excessive benefits after the pension fund incorrectly concluded that they had 821 designations. The findings do not accuse the officials of criminal conduct. Instead, they fault administrative practices at the NYPD and pension fund, including the fund’s apparent disregard of restrictions attached to some waivers. The report said NYPD officials have already accepted its recommendations to improve documentation and compliance. The pension fund had not said whether it would reduce the benefits when the findings were released. The review noted that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch issued two 821 waivers since taking office, including a renewal for Daughtry in February 2025. It also said the department has moved to limit what investigators described as excessive use of the designations under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has kept Tisch as commissioner.