NYPD True Blue

New Yorkers shouldn’t need another reminder about the dangers their police officers face each day and how they willingly put their lives on the line, but this week brought one anyway.

For that’s precisely what Sgt. Hameed Armani and Officer Peter Cybulski did in Times Square when it looked for one terrifying moment Thursday night as if they were about to be blown to bits.

A man threw a package into their van, looking for all the world like a bomb — this with as many as a thousand people in the immediate vicinity.

But in the initial shock, their first thought was of others, not themselves.

“I was like, ‘We’re going to go, but we’re not going to have anybody else go with us,’ ” said Armani — who immediately stepped on the gas, then began barreling down the street to get away from the crowd.

“Halfway through, we said our prayers,” he added, “and I was like, ‘All right, if it happens, it happens. I’m not going to stop here.’ ”

A bomb squad later determined that the package was just a mix of garden lights, candles and a T-shirt wrapped in tinfoil. The deranged man who threw it was later tracked down and held police at bay for six hours before he was subdued.

Cops too often are forced to make splitsecond, life-and-death decisions, more often than not while a gun is aimed at them.

Here, the need for quick action was even more immediate: The slightest hesitation could easily have cost many lives, had the bomb been real.

Luckily for everyone, the package wasn’t dangerous. But Sgt. Armani and Officer Cybulski had no way of knowing that, as they acted with the selfless professionalism that New Yorkers have come to expect from their cops.

They’re real “heroes of the city for what they did,” as Commissioner Bill Bratton rightly said. God bless them.