IT’S a twist in the often brutal phenomenon of “happy slapping”. A teenager has filmed a police officer dumping his friend in a dustbin.

The Metropolitan Police are investigating the incident in which the officer, fed up after allegedly being taunted by Anop Singh, 16, hoisted him and put him in a nearby bin. Pierre Cornwall, 17, the boy’s friend, captured the event on his mobile phone.

Anop, from Hackney, said that the incident, which took place in Stoke Newington, North London, left him “confused and humiliated” and he is considering legal action. “I’m really angry because I didn’t do anything and this guy just chucked me in there like a piece of rubbish,” he said. “There could have been glass, needles or anything inside. Everyone was looking at me and laughing.”

The Internal Investigation Command of the Met has begun an inquiry, a Scotland Yard spokeswoman said yesterday. If the officer is found guilty of a disciplinary offence, he could be put on restricted duties or suspended.

The Hackney policeman and a colleague were responding to reports of youths throwing conkers at passers-by in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, when Anop and Pierre started filming them with their phones. Asked to stop, Anop was said to be uncooperative and made a number of less-than-polite comments.

When the policeman threatened to put him in the bin, Anop is heard on his friend’s phone saying: “You’re going to put me in the bin? Go on then.”

The officer takes him on and is seen carrying the teenager over his shoulder and placing him in the bin. Pierre, a media studies student, said: “I couldn’t believe what this guy was doing but I just tried to get it all on camera. You hear so much in the news about teenagers and ‘happy slapping’ but this shows we can do good things with our phones as well.”

“Happy slapping” has shown an alarmingly violent trend. A 17-year-old girl in Wortley, South Yorkshire, was shot in the leg with an airgun by two youths and filmed. In June the rape of a girl aged 11 was filmed by a gang of teenage boys.

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