Never off-duty: Bikini-clad, holidaying Swedish cop nabs thief
FollowAn off-duty Swedish cop has become the latest viral sensation, after a photograph of her making an arrest in a bikini went viral on social media.
According to a report in The Local, officer Mikaela Kellner and her friends were sunbathing in the Rålambshov park in Stockholm when a man walked up to them pretending to sell magazines. However, when the man lingered even when they refused, Mikaela grew suspicious.
"I told my friends to keep an eye on their things. But as soon as he left one of my friends said 'where did my mobile phone go?'" Kellner told The Local on Thursday.
The officer understood that the man had used his magazines as cover to steal the mobile phone - picking it up without anyone noticing when he left.
"There was no time, so I ran after him, maybe 15 metres or so. One of my friends is also a police officer, so we got hold of him. He tried to get away so we held onto him harder," she said.
Later, they called other police forces, who then made a formal arrest.
Kellner later told Associated Press that she would have done the same even if had she been naked. “If I had been naked, I would have intervened as well,” she said.
