A GOLD Coast police officer who pulled a taser on a pair of Victorian tourists is now at the centre of a corruption investigation by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Hayley Van Hostauyen and her boyfriend Clayton Foelmli, a Rebels bikie at the time, were confronted by the taser-wielding cop during a routine traffic stop late last year before posting mobile phone video footage of their ordeal which went viral.

In a post on Facebook, Ms Van Hostauyen, a Melbourne preschool teacher, claimed the officers only let them go without charge after deleting the video.

They later retrieved it and posted the footage online.

Now the officer who produced the taser, an experienced senior constable, is under investigation from the CCC amid allegations video footage from a police-worn body camera of the incident has been deleted.

In the original footage, from Ms Van Hostauyen’s mobile phone, officers pull the couple in their hire car over shortly after they arrived on the Gold Coast for a holiday in October last year.

The officers explain they pulled the couple over after spotting Mr Foelmli’s distinctive neck tattoos.

The construction worker was a member of the Melbourne chapter of the Rebels bikie gang.

media_camera Hayley Van Hostauyen and her boyfriend Clayton Foelmli. Picture: Facebook

After being ordered out of the car, Mr Foelmli apparently reached back in to the vehicle to retrieve identification documents, prompting one of the officers to produce a taser at short range.

She did not fire the weapon, but Ms Van Hostauyen’s subsequent video generated more than one million views in a single day. It has now attracted almost four million views.

The officer attracted a torrent of criticism but was backed by her superiors.

However, the incident has since been referred to the CCC, which has confirmed it is investigating allegations of corrupt conduct.

“As the investigation remains ongoing, the CCC is unable to comment further,” a CCC spokesman said.

The officer was transferred to a different assignment shortly after the incident but is still on active duty.

The QPS is currently in contract talks with a company whose body camera footage can not be deleted.