Bonnie, Clyde Or . . . Butch Cassidy?

Law enforcement officers cared very little about offending the bank robber:

Was it Clyde? Or was it Bonnie?

For a while yesterday, the cops were mired in gender confusion.

Police contended with two wildly different descriptions of a midday bandit who robbed a Castleton Corners bank of $1,600.

Cops finally zeroed in on a good description of their crook — a 200-pound, 5 foot, 5-inch-tall woman, wearing sunglasses, a red hat on backwards, and a suede jacket.

She got in line, like everyone else at the Commerce Bank branch at 1818 Victory Blvd., then when she got to the teller, passed a note demanding cash, a police source said yesterday.

She got the money in 10s and 20s, and ran toward Jewett Avenue.

And as she made her escape, police scoured the area with a helicopter, while a police dispatcher wrestled with how to describe the robber over the air.

“Give me one description, please! Thank you,” the dispatcher shouted over the police radio airwaves, just after two separate officers each insisted they had the right description — one thought the bandit was a woman, the other thought the crook was a 300-pound man.

A veteran cop said the robber pulled the same type of job at the Commerce Bank at 2173 86th Street in Brooklyn at about 4:20 p.m. Saturday, despite initial reports that the robber in that job was male as well.

“I get the impression she does have manly features,” the source said.

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One witness, a construction worker who wouldn’t give his name, insisted he saw a man, not a woman, “waddling out of the parking lot.”

“They’ve been saying it’s a girl. I’m telling you, he wasn’t a girl. It was an old man . . . in his late 40s,” the witness said.

Yesterday’s robbery comes just two days after a flamboyant, cigar-chomping robber who walked with a cane got a nearly $60,000 haul from a Richmond County Savings Bank branch in Great Kills.

(By the way, is there something going on in Staten Island lately that makes it such a target for bank robberies?)