The event occurred in Stockholm, Sweden and the photo of Mikaela
Kellner in her bikini and her female friend pinning the man to the
ground has gone viral.
She said she would do it again if she had to. Kellner said she
did not hesitate at all to make the arrest while she was in a
bikini.
Kellner added, “If I had been naked I would have intervened as
well.”
“My first intervention while wearing a bikini during my 11 years
as a police officer,” she posted on Instagram
As reported by the AP, Kellner and three of her friends
were sunbathing in a park in the Swedish city when a homeless man
approached them. He was selling newspapers.
One of Kellner’s friends noticed that her phone was missing
after the man left, according to the Aftonbladet, a
newspaper in Sweden.
David Klinger posted on Kellner’s Facebook page about competing
with her in the 2015 World Police and Fire Games and said she is an
“amazing athlete. He said she came in first place in the “Toughest
Competitor Alive” event.
( Facebook) I had the pleasure and honor of sharing the field
with Mikaela at the World Police and Fire Games last year and know
her to be an amazing athlete (she placed first in the Toughest
Competitor Alive event). Turns out she's an awesome police officer
as well. She was hanging out at a park in Stockholm last week
enjoying the day when a guy stole her friend's cell phone and tried
to run off. He didn't get far before Mikaela ran him down and held
him for the on duty police to deal with. She's gained superhero
status now that someone has made a cartoon version of her as bikini
cop.
Mikaela has also appeared on “Ninja Warrior Sweden,” described
as a show where “[t]he very best and most physically fit people
take on the world’s toughest obstacle course.” The show follows
“125 of Sweden’s most well-trained and versatile athletes as they
take on the Ninja Warrior course in search of glory and a half
million Swedish Crownes.”