VISION has emerged of the mortifying moment a police officer grabbed hold of a man’s penis after mistaking it for a concealed weapon.

In the clip posted to social media, two US police officers can be seen standing with a shirtless handcuffed man in what looks like a hotel foyer.

While one of the officers holds the man upright the other searches his back pockets before moving to the front.

This is when it becomes clear that the officer notices something suspicious and grabs and squeezes it a number of times before realising what it is.

Awkward.

The video, recorded in 2014, was first uploaded to imgur recently and quickly sparked a reddit comments feed.

“(The officer) seems impressed and ashamed at the same time,” one user wrote.

The clip’s been viewed close to 10 million times.