22-Sep-2009
Written by: Blakely Slater

Officers caught on tape playing video games while on the job.

Drug busts are often action packed with doors breaking, criminals running, and police yelling. However, drug task force officers of Polk County, Florida added a new form of action to narcotics seizures: Wii Bowling.

Tampa Bay’s News Channel 8 showed footage from a secret camera that was installed in the house prior to a drug raid, and the video has now spread all over the Internet. This amusing clip shows various members of the team putting a halt to their duties to partake in the video game. In fact, one officer becomes so overjoyed by his success that he frantically jumps up and down and appears to do some kind of celebratory dance in his colleague’s face.

This was a $4,000 sting, and therefore should have been taken a bit more seriously. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd agrees, telling the Orlando Sentinel, “I am not pleased with their conduct. There is no reason for that. It’s inexcusable.” In her estimation, only about 8 of the 17 officers who were at the house will be involved in any sort of disciplinary action. The officers have apologized for their behavior, and it can be assumed that they will steer clear of video games, at least while on the job, in the future.

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