Two Utah “Peace Officers” Suspended Over Bikini Firearms Video Shoot
BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 8 months ago
SALT LAKE CITY – Two Utah peace officers have been suspended without pay over a risque video shoot featuring bikini-clad women firing high-powered weapons.
The Utah Department of Public Safety imposed the discipline in December on Rob Wilkinson, a Utah Highway Patrol sergeant, and Justin Hansen, a State Bureau of Investigation agent. The department released its discipline records last week after receiving a request to obtain them by The Salt Lake Tribune.
Wilkinson, who received a three-day suspension, and Hansen, who received a one-day suspension, were at the Big Shot Ranch near Grantsville in June when British bikini models posed for photos and were videotaped firing guns for a calendar called “Hot Shots.”
The two men were seen wearing camouflage uniforms identifying them as police in a promotional video posted on YouTube in October.
Neither Wilkinson nor Hansen sought their superiors’ permission to participate, and superiors learned of the activity only when they saw video clips played by the news media in Utah, according to the records.
The men were disciplined for conduct that brings discredit to an officer or agency, and for wearing their uniform during a promotion for a product — both rules violations, the records show.
I hate it when that happens to me.
“Peace officers” indeed. Dressed all in tacticool gear. I don’t think “peace” was the “piece” they were interested in.
Speaking of tacticool, recall when I saw Mr. tacticool at a church in Mauldin, S.C.? Well, I was at the Firehouse sub shop on Mauldin Road on Saturday running errands, and saw his buddy all duded up in tactical gear, drop holster, body armor, and so on. I asked my wife what she thought of when she saw him? Did she see a “peace officer” or someone else?
She said, “I see someone trying to keep themselves safe. I said, “exactly.”
On March 10, 2015 at 9:07 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
Interesting how a PD will suspend LEO’s (for three days) for posing in uniform with scantily clad women, but not do squat about them SWAT raiding the wrong house, shooting unarmed citizens in same, and/or killing any pets that happen to be about the premises.