The NYPD made a disturbing discovery inside a van that had been involved in an accident on a busy street in Manhattan near 42nd and 10th Avenue.

A judge upheld a temporary restraining order, keeping the officers on the job as the legal fight over their employment status grinds through the courts.

The department is trying to fire the officers after determining they weren’t qualified to join the force in the first place based, they say, on checkered histories that include arrests, drug use,

An NYPD official who was not authorized to discuss the issue with Newsday, said as many as 75 police officers currently on the job had questions raised about their backgrounds in the hiring process, but it was unclear if they ever received letters of disqualification

More than two dozen New York City Police officers who allegedly failed background checks will stay on the job for now. A judge ruled Tuesday the NYPD cannot fire the officers for at least another two months, which means the 30 cops the NYPD says shouldn't have been hired will be staying on administrative duty.

Members of the NYPD Fugitive Task Force with U.S. marshals found Audwin Caines on W. 142nd St. in Harlem and cuffed him for the June 23 murder of Chaneil Ramsay.

Nearly three dozen NYPD officers who the department now says never should have been hired or promoted will be allowed to remain on the force, for now, amid the ongoing scandal.