an off-duty Swedish police officer gave a pickpocket the shock of his life - when she tackled him to the ground wearing only a bikini.
Mikaela Kellner, a veteran of Swedish Ninja Warrior and police officer of 11 years, was sunbathing in a Stockholm park with friends when the unsuspecting pickpocket approached.
Under the guise of selling magazines for the homeless, the man began talking to the group of bikini-clad women.
It was only after he had left the group that one of her friends realised her mobile phone had vanished.
'I just acted on instinct and didn't think about it so much until after we had pinned him down,' Kellner told The Local Sweden.
'When I sat there I looked over at our other two friends who are not police officers and realised that it probably looked pretty funny.'
A snapshot of the arrest has gone viral after the athlete posted it to her Instagram account, where it has now received more than 6,000 likes in just one day.
But she confessed: 'I would have stepped in no matter what my outfit. Had I been naked I would also have intervened.
'Nothing will stop me.'