New York’s Finest? Try New York’s “worst.”

Spitfire Manhattan prosecutor Coleen Balbert launched into a four-hour summation this morning in the sensational “rape cops” trial — calling the two officers in the case a disgrace to the NYPD.

“They were supposed to be New York’s Finest,” Balbert said of Officer Kenneth Moreno and Officer Franklin Mata.

“But on Dec. 7, 2008, they were New York’s worst.”

Moreno, 43 — the accused rapist — and his partner, Mata, 29 — the accused lookout — have been on trial in Manhattan Supreme Court for six weeks.

The five-woman, seven-man jury in the case — in which the cops are charged with the on-duty rape of a drunken woman they’d been dispatched to help — had been promised by the trial judge that deliberations will begin by day’s end today.

That seems unlikely now.

Balbert’s summation could well stretch past three.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro will likely then need an additional hour or so for instructing jurors on the indictment and on the ground rules of their deliberations.

The judge may try to stick to his schedule — or may well decide not to give jurors these instructions until tomorrow.

Jurors will eventually be considering charges of rape, of burglary — for the cops’ three, caught-on-video return visits to the woman’s East Village apartment — along with additional felonies and misdemeanors for allegedly fudging records to cover for these visits.

First, though, comes Balbert’s summation, in which she is arguing that the then-27-year-old woman was so drunk, she was physically unable to resist or protest when Moreno stripped and raped her as she lay helpless on her bed.

And as for Moreno’s claim, during a three-day stint on the witness stand, that he had only returned to the woman’s East 13th Street apartment to “help” her, and that he’d nobly rebuffed her drunken advances?

“This was not about Officer Moreno helping someone,” Balbert said. “This was about Officer Moreno having sex with a drunken, vulnerable, helpless girl.”

But the case isn’t just about rape, the prosecutor said.

“This case is about violating the oath the defendants took to serve the public,” she said.

“This case is about their violating the very laws they swore to uphold,” she said.

“They disgraced their profession and all the other members of the New York City police department who take pride in that profession.”

Defense lawyers have made much of the lack of forensics; no DNA or condom was recovered, and the woman had no conclusive physical injuries.

But Balbert this morning told the jury that they must focus on the pile of additional, circumstantial evidence that still points to rape.

The woman had immediately given investigators a compelling recollection of the alleged rape — rich with such details as recalling the sound of Moreno opening his bullet proof vest’s Velcro straps, and the way both cops afterward searched the bed around her with flashlights and hands before dashing out on a sudden radio call.

Moreno also admitted he’d used a condom when confronted by the woman days later — a conversation secretly recorded by DA investigators.

The prosecution must prove rape beyond a reasonable doubt, Balbert told the jury.

“We don’t have to prove semen beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said.

“We don’t have to prove injury beyond a reasonable doubt. We don’t have to prove condom beyond a reasonable doubt.”