Police are searching for a suspect who stole the gun off an off-duty NYPD officer in the Bronx.

Video shows the suspect threatening the 23-year-old officer with a gun after he got out of his car on Garrison Avenue in Hunts Point early Wednesday morning.

Police say the suspect asked the victim if he was a cop and then went through the officer's pockets.

He took off with the officer's weapon and wallet, which has his NYPD identification card inside.

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