A Fire Department official was grilled in federal court about hiring two white former cops involved in the infamous police shooting of an unarmed Amadou Diallo.

The revelation was heard before Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis in a continuing case where the city's black firefighters are arguing for a federal monitor to oversee FDNY reform.

In the courtroom, FDNY Director of Candidate Investigations Dean Tow was asked about former NYPD cops Richard Murphy and Edward McMellon, who the Fire Department hired after they were cleared of gunning down Diallo.

"Did you have any concern that, perhaps, in shooting an innocent civilian ['the cops'] judgment, while although not criminal, may have been faulty?" asked lawyer Richard Levy, counsel for the Vulcan Society, a national organization of black firefighters.

"No," Tow replied tersely.

The Vulcan Society wants the federal court to order changes both in the Fire Department's hiring policy and to reform the way the FDNY investigates discrimination complaints.

Garaufis has previously ruled that the last two written firefighter tests discriminated against minorities. Currently, the court is looking at evidence concerning a culture of racial hatred in city firehouses.

Also in court last week, FDNY Assistant Commissioner Patricia Kavaler explained in sworn depositions that a "boys being boys" culture existed in hiring, including situations where FDNY higher-ups would make calls to vouch for favored candidates.