WHAT A GREAT WEEK FOR NYC’S POLICE COMMISSIONER TO BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY: NYPD suits up, expands patrols for mass protests, possible violence as Israel-Palestinian war rages. 

Police Commissioner Edward Caban did not attend the briefing held at City Hall because he was out of the country, a source told the Daily News. He was visiting Qatar, according to a second source.

The Qatar Peninsula has a photo of Caban meeting that nation’s minister of the interior, which it ran on Monday.