Sometimes it’s hard for our boys in...

Sometimes it’s hard for our boys in blue to tell who the enemy is. A Los Angeles Police Department officer was wounded yesterday in the Hollenbeck area when he accidentally discharged a suspect’s shotgun and shot himself in the leg.

The officer is being treated at a local hospital for pellet wounds. The suspect, who was wanted for assault with a deadly weapon, was later captured.

Meanwhile, in another incident downtown, an officer’s car was rear-ended by a second police cruiser when their chase of a suspect came to a screeching halt. After the officer of the front vehicle jumped from the car and gave chase on foot, he collapsed.

He had apparently suffered back and muscle spasms from the auto run-in with his fellow officer. The suspect was later captured and booked for grand theft auto.

Reagan Watch:

They are back in L.A., but are you sure it’s Ron and Nancy you’re seeing at all those boutiques and boites you frequent? Ron Smith of Ron Smith’s Celebrity Look-Alikes, notes, “They were both very popular in the White House and are a very good-looking couple . . . now they’re the President and First Lady of California.”

As a result, their look-alikes still command invitations to auto shows, conventions and such. But Smith noted that while the faux First Lady and President are still in demand, their fees have been slashed by 50% since the real Reagans left office.

The Reagans’ 7,000-plus-square-foot home, hardly grand by Bel-Air standards, prompts double-takes by tourists on the StarLine tour of stars’ homes. Many tourists initially mistake the imposing Kirkeby Mansion next door for the Reagans’ new digs, says Shawn Keowns, StarLine’s secretary. When they are told of their error, “most people think, ‘How nice, they’ve gone back down,’ ” she said. “People sort of think they’re keeping their feet on the ground because they don’t have a huge mansion like the White House.”

Speaking of post-White House decompression . . . Longtime Reagan campaign strategist Stuart Spencer said Reagan was walking through the den of his Bel-Air house one morning when he heard a news reader on a morning TV show announce, “The President said today.” Reagan stopped short, according to Spencer, and declared, “‘ I didn’t say that!’ Then he realized he wasn’t President any more.”

It looks like a crime scene. A small corner on Pierce College’s campus in Woodland Hills is cordoned off with the familiar yellow and black police barrier tape. But the college gardeners explained that they are only protecting potential victims from the bidwillii bunya-bunya pods. The Australian trees, which were planted in the 1940s, drop five-pound seed pods filled with sap from heights up to 80 feet. Gardner Erik Danam and crew wear hard hats to mow the lawn around the trees. So far, no accidents, even though the pods are nicknamed, “The Widowmakers.”