The New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has joined the Uniformed Firefighters Association, and taken a strong stand against the leftist-controlled International Freedom Center: Police union wants Freedom Center busted. (Hat tip: Mudville Gazette.)

Police-union leaders have joined the battle to scuttle plans for the controversial International Freedom Center at Ground Zero — a site they say should be treated with the same reverence as Pearl Harbor.

“The World Trade Center is not a place for domestic or international politics,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch wrote in a letter sent yesterday to World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Director Gretchen Dykstra.

“It is not a place for inappropriate art or entertainment and programming which trivializes or ignores the history of the site,” Lynch’s letter continued.

The PBA joins the city’s firefighters union in opposing the center.

Relatives of 9/11 victims have blasted plans to put the center on the same site as a memorial to the 2,974 people who died, over fears it could include anti-American exhibits.

Lynch said any use of the site should be focused only on 9/11 and the lives that were lost at the World Trade Center. Among those killed were 23 city cops and 343 firefighters.

“We have active and retired members who participated in the largest rescue in this nation’s history, and they want that site respected for what it is,” Lynch told The Post.

“This is a call for the people of the City of New York who lived through that tragedy … to stand up and say no.”