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Brooklyn, NY - Two cops from a troubled Brooklyn precinct tried to trump up charges against a perp—who turned out to be an undercover Internal Affairs investigator, sources said yesterday.

Sgt. Raymond Stukes and Officer Hector Tirado have been indicted and are expected to turn themselves in to the DA today.

It’s the latest black eye for the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which is under investigation for pushing cops to make arrests for petty crimes as well as fudging stats to downgrade the more serious ones.

The officers were snared in a sting by Internal Affairs in December when they were told to keep an eye out for people selling untaxed cigarettes in their precinct.

Some time later, they saw a man hanging out on a corner in the neighborhood and found that he was carrying packs of knock-off smokes.

Stukes, 45, and Tirado, 30, cuffed him, but then claimed that they had seen him selling the bogus butts to two people, according to sources.

Little did the hapless cops know that the man in their custody was an undercover corruption investigator and that the whole incident was caught on video.

To complete the ruse, the undercover cop was processed at the station house so as not to tip off Stukes and Tirado about the sting.

Stukes, who has been with the NYPD since 1998, and Tirado, who joined the force in 2004, have been put on desk duty.

Sources said the indictment is expected to be unsealed today and the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office is set to charge them with felony perjury, filing a false report and filing a false instrument.

Internal Affairs began investigating the 81st Precinct after an officer there made allegations that bosses were telling cops to intentionally downgrade crimes to make their statistics look better.

While Stukes and Tirado stand accused of doing the opposite, police sources said both actions stem from precinct commanders caving to the pressure of top brass to make themselves look better.

“There’s pressure on the cops from the bosses and they’re getting pressured from headquarters,” a police source told The Post.

The NYPD did not return an e-mail seeking comment.

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