Police bogged at Wharton Beach, Esperance, WA as cops ask 4WD for help freeing Toyota Camry

Two cops have been forced to ask tourists to help them get their Toyota Camry out of trouble after getting bogged at a popular Western Australia beach.

Beachgoers at Wharton Beach in the state’s stunning Esperance region watched as the police officers desperately tried to free their two-wheel-drive car from the pristine white sand.

Luckily for the embarrassed officers, a white four-wheel drive with a canoe on its roof rack was more than happy to provide a helping hand, towing the bogged cop car out of danger.

Wharton Beach is popular with 4WD owners with drivers able to park right next to the water’s edge if they have an appropriate car. 

The video of the cops, posted to Bogged, quickly went viral with the police officers unanimously blasted for trying to drive their suburban sedan onto the sand.  

Police officers were forced to ask tourists for help with getting their Toyota Camry out of trouble after getting bogged at a popular Western Australia beach

‘Imagine having a Camry as a police car,’ said one. 

‘I’d drive it onto the sand too, and just leave it there.’

Another said, ‘Imagine trusting someone with a gun who drives a Camry on the beach’.

Commenters also had a lot of fun about the officers’ experience, or perhaps lack of it.

‘Oh it’s OK. They’re highly trained,’ said one, with a replier adding ‘They will tell you how trained they are after a nine-week course’.

‘Why help them? Silly enough to drive a Camry onto the beach they can sit there and get it out.’ 

Plenty lacked sympathy for the officers’ plight. 

‘Imagine being that special to think it can go on the beach,’ said one.

Beachgoers watched on, amused and bemused, after the police car was stranded on the pristine white sand at Wharton Beach at Cape Le Grande National Park, Esperance

One poster imagined themselves as judge and jury and wrote ‘reckless driving. Five points’.

Some commenters did defend the police officers’ decision to drive onto the beach in the first place, and criticised those making fun of them.

‘It’s funny nobody thought that they may have rushed onto the beach to deal with an incident or save someone who’s having a cardiac arrest,’ they said.

‘Maybe they just took the chance because they needed to get somewhere fast. 

‘Most of you keyboard warriors have never been in the situation where you had to put yourself second to save or help someone else.’

There were a lot of very snarky comments after the video went viral on social media

But that didn’t stop the snarky comments from continuing thick and fast. 

‘See it’s all just a ruse that you need a 4×4 to drive on the beach, all you need is police stickers on you family car and bam you can drive anywhere,’ said one.