An NYPD recruit, four months into his police academy training , was arrested on rape charges in Queens on Thursday, officials said.

Ahmed Elnahtawy, 24, was taken into custody at the NYPD Police Academy in College Point just after 8 a.m. and charged with rape, forcible touching and sex abuse, cops said.

A police source said the rape allegations stem from an NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigation. The sex crime he’s accused of committing occurred weeks ago. It wasn’t immediately clear if it happened before he joined the academy, a second source said.

Elnahtawy’s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending.

He joined the NYPD on Aug. 20 and was expected to graduate the academy in February.

He was part of the nearly 1,100 new recruits sworn in over the summer that NYPD Com

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