WASHINGTON – For anyone who has called into a WTOP “Ask the Chief” show and complained about police officers driving while using cell phones, this video is for you.

Footage appeared online on Tuesday showing a driver in Russia pulling up next to a squad car of local police officers. The driver of the cruiser is not wearing his seatbelt and is talking on his cell phone.

In a surprisingly brazen display (for this country, at least), one man shouts at the officers to roll down the passenger window, then begins scolding them for their failings.

Perhaps even more surprisingly, they courteously obey his commands to buckle up and hang up.

Check out the footage, here:

Editor’s note: This video contains explicit language and may not be appropriate for some readers.

The unnamed driver in the video cites regulations decreed by Rashid Nurgaliyev, the Russian minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2012. Russian law mandates drivers must wear a seatbelt. This follows a traditional culture of shirking the safety device, which led to 26,000 deaths in 2009 alone, according to a World Health Organization report. Drivers are also not allowed to use cell phones while driving, except with hands-free devices.

However, this scenario probably could not be recreated in the D.C. area. District Police Chief Cathy Lanier states that local “click it or ticket” and cell phone bans do not apply to police officers, who are specifically trained to multi-task.

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