Hero cop Ivan Marcano was promoted to detective this morning during an impromptu bedside visit by Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
"He was surprised -- he was a little sedated. Certainly very happy," said Kelly after returning from Bronx Lebanon Hospital to City Hall with the mayor.
"He just did a remarkable job and (there was) a promotion ceremony today, so we thought it would be appropriate to do it. Obviously, he couldn't attend, so that's why we did it."
Kelly was referring to a previously scheduled NYPD promotion ceremony.
Asked how Mercano reacted, Kelly said with a chuckle: "Thank you very much. It was a nice moment, but clearly it was a surprise for him."
Ivan Marcano
Also present at the bedside was Mercano's girlfriend.
Bloomberg canceled his WOR radio show so he could appear with Kelly.
Dramatic video released yesterday shows Marcano holding one hand over a bleeding bullet wound in his chest — and a gun in the other as he chases down three armed robbers in The Bronx.
Marcano fatally shot one of them and, still disregarding his injury, kept sprinting after another before he finally made his way to an ambulance for a trip to the hospital.
The surveillance video shows the 27-year-old off-duty cop as he squeezes off 10 shots — using a livery cab and other cars as cover — at members of the "Jackson Avenue Gunners'' gang who had shot him minutes after he broke up a robbery.
The left-handed Marcano used that hand to apply pressure to his wound as he fired his Glock with his weaker right hand.
But Marcano still managed to put a bullet into the head of the man who shot him, Prince James. The 18-year-old thug had been busted for a shooting last month, but the Bronx DA declined to prosecute.
James died on the sidewalk at Burnside and Harrison avenues, next to the gang's white Mustang getaway car.
Police yesterday were questioning a suspect they believe was the wheel man. They were still looking for another accomplice sources identified as Jason Leiva, 20.
They face charges for the attempted murder of the officer and robbery of cab driver Mario Abarca, 60.
The gun James used to shoot Marcano was stolen from South Carolina, sources said. James had a string of prior arrests — including assault, robbery and grand larceny — and was wanted for a parole violation, police sources said.
In the September Bronx case, James was arrested for allegedly shooting a rival gang member in the foot. A warm, .38caliber gun with spent casings was found on the sidewalk next to James.
The victim refused to cooperate and DA Robert Johnson — whom The Post last month exclusively revealed has the lowest prosecution rate of any city district attorney— did not bring him to trial.
"They were waiting for DNA on the gun and released him," said one fuming source. "They could have held him on a parole violation. Three days later they decided to — but by then he was gone."
A spokesman for Johnson said there was "no public record" of that case but said it would have been dropped because it couldn't be proved "beyond a reasonable doubt."
Marcano's world collided with James' as the cop was sitting in a car with girlfriend Hilda Miolan Forteza outside Abarca's apartment building.
She spotted the holdup and, as Marcano got out of his car, James suddenly drew his gun and blasted at the cop, sources said.
The bullet grazed the cop's left arm and entered his chest, just missing his heart.
As Forteza rushed Marcano to the hospital, they wound up behind James' getaway car, the video shows.
The Mustang lurched forward, rear-ended a black livery cab, bounced off a parked car and careened onto the sidewalk.
The suspects fled the car, with James and Leiva allegedly brandishing their guns.
Marcano scrambled out of his car, took cover, ordered passersby to "get down!" and fired. He shot James, then chased another suspect.
After losing him, Marcano got into a nearby ambulance to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. The cop, whose dad, Victor, died in a plane crash off Rockaway shortly after 9/11 — had the bullet removed yesterday.
"He said he was lucky," Marcano's grandfather Matias said. "Everything is OK. He doesn't complain about anything."
Additional reporting by Doug Auer, Larry Celona, Reuven Fenton, Erin Calabrese and Kirstan Conley
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