NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is being courted by a top state Republican to run for mayor next year — and the city’s top cop is open to the idea, sources told The Post.

Kelly, who has come under fire for the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and Muslim-surveillance policies, could use the City Hall post to continue driving down crime and fighting local terrorism “for another four or eight years,’’ said former state GOP Chairman William Powers, who heads the party’s newly created statewide “advisory committee.’’

While Kelly isn’t enrolled in a political party, Powers said the state Election Law would make it easy for the longtime commissioner to run as the GOP candidate.

“I will be talking to the county leaders in the city about getting behind Ray Kelly, and I think he could defeat [City Council Speaker Christine] Quinn or one of the other liberal Democrats who are looking to run,” said Powers. “I think he’d get a lot of outer-borough support and the backing of Democrats who have voted for Rudy in the past.”

Powers, who like Kelly is a former Marine, said, “Ray Kelly is a great American and a great leader, and he’s made New York City safe and he’s made America safe.”

Powers said mayoral hopefuls like Quinn are using the media to smear the commissioner over his tough-on-crime policies, “because she doesn’t want to face Kelly in the election next year.’’

(Source: NY Post)