The punks who soaked uniformed cops with buckets of water in Brooklyn and Manhattan will be arrested and face justice, the NYPD’s chief of department vowed Tuesday.

“Our detectives — and our detectives are the greatest in the world — are looking and we will identify who was involved, and arrests will be made,” said a visibly fired-up Terence Monahan at a One Police Plaza ceremony honoring veteran cops. “That is not acceptable to our men and women who are out there.”

Disturbing video clips posted online Monday show officers getting drenched as they’re in the middle of making arrests.

One of the troubling incidents took place near West 115th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem, while the other went down near 1400 East New York Ave. — just two blocks from the 73rd Precinct stationhouse.

“As it was 30 years ago when you came on this job, being a cop is a tough job,” Monahan told the crowd of longtime law officers. “It’s not easy. It wasn’t easy back in 1989, it’s not easy right now.

“All you have to do is pick up today’s papers to take a look at what’s going on.”

Monahan, the department’s highest-ranking uniformed cop, went on to describe the dousings in greater detail, starting with the Harlem incident.

“There was cops responding to a disorderly group, chased them away from a hydrant,” said Monahan. “They dispersed, [and the cops] see a guy was wanted on a warrant. They know him, because they know that neighborhood.

“As they’re making that arrest, there were a couple guys who thought it was all right to throw water and a bucket at the cop,” said Monahan. “Well, that ain’t all right.”

The group then ran off, but Monahan said he doesn’t expect them to be in the wind for long.

“As usual, they scattered, but we have good information,” he said.

The Brownsville incident played out in a similar way, said Monahan.

“They were responding out there, dealing with an incident. As they’re walking away, someone thought it was all right to take a bucket of water and toss it over the top of a cop’s head,” said Monahan. “That’s not all right.”

In that case, the dripping-wet officers simply walked away — a show of restraint that department brass said in a Monday memo is beyond the call of duty.

“Any cop who thinks that that’s all right — that they can walk away from something like that — maybe should reconsider whether or not this is the profession for them,” advised Monahan. “We don’t take that.”