Berlin's police department said Wednesday that its officers were 'only human' after they were expelled from the security force for next week's G20 summit after hardcore partying that earned them hero status from the German capital's clubbing scene.
Around 220 officers from Berlin were unceremoniously released from duty by the Hamburg authorities for the next month's summit in the city after they threw a wild party that involved public sex, brawling, urinating in a group and a bathrobe-clad female officer strip-dancing with her service weapon.
'Yes, we partied,' the Berlin police acknowledged in a statement on Facebook, with the slogan 'human'.
Two officers were celebrating their birthdays, they said, and their colleagues decided to throw a party inside the fenced-off grounds of their temporary container accommodation.
'They drank, danced, pi**ed and, yes, apparently also bonked, as our press officer put it so well,' the police statement said.
But it said that 'inside our uniforms are human beings' - young men and women who carry heavy responsibilities when on duty and are usually 'very professional'.