A retired Queens city cop working for the U.S. Secret Service will surrender today to face charges he stole five cars recovered from Ground Zero - and then doled them out to relatives, the Daily News has learned. William Bennette was supposed to be preparing an inventory report of what was left of the 179 Secret Service vehicles assigned to the World Trade Center field office on Sept. 11, 2001.

Instead, investigators say the 52-year-old office support tech was picking through an auto graveyard at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn for unscathed vehicles - and forging paperwork to steal them.

His daughter wound up with a 2001 Chevy Impala, and his mother in North Carolina got a 2001 Mercury Sable and a 2001 Ford Taurus, sources say.

Investigators got wind of the scheme and allegedly found a bogus receipt on Bennette's desk purporting to show the sale of three cars to a Whitestone, Queens, body shop for $10,300.

Those same vehicles had been classified in Secret Service records as "crushed."

The ex-lawman from Bayside is suspected of forging signatures of supervisors to get new titles and registrations for the cars, worth about $35,000.

Bennette, who retired six years ago from the NYPD, could not be reached for comment.

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