A Toronto man claims his life was “devastated” when an Ontario Provincial Police officer threatened to sodomize him with a pink sex toy – and he has the incident on video.

Jagdis Tirbany, 46, says he plans to sue the OPP, alleging sexual assault, intimidation and a two-year campaign of harassment that forced him to shutter his tow truck business.

“Some days I feel like I can’t wake up... I had a good life before this,” said Tirbani, who claims to have lost at least $100,000 after the alleged harassment forced him to stop towing.

Speaking Wednesday in front of the Toronto OPP station where the incident occurred, Tirbany and his lawyer Davin Charney said the decision to sue was made after the Crown withdrew a charge of uttering threats against Const. Ludgero Café in early February.

The charge had been recommended by the province’s Special Investigations Unit.

On March 12, 2012, Tirbany was called to the OPP station on Keele St. for fingerprinting after an assault charge, which he says was later withdrawn. Equipped with a hidden camera in a pen hanging from his shirt pocket, Tirbany recorded an exchange with three police officers, including Café and David Brown, the men he claims have been harassing him.

After a lengthy conversation, a man identified by the video as Café appears on the edge of the screen holding what appear to be two pink sex toys.

He asks, “Which one do you want?” and says: “If you ever end up going to jail…in a nice mostly dark place…That’s exactly what Bubba’s gonna do to you. I will personally send a nice…to take care of you in there.”

The video is posted on YouTube with the headline, “Toronto OPP hidden camera appears to show cop brandishing dildos Mar 12/12.”

Tirbany has also made a complaint to the Office of the Interdependent Police Review Director (OIPRD), alleging two other officers witnessed the exchange and failed to report it.

Tirbany and his lawyer called for the immediate suspension of the officers involved, and for charges to be reinstated against Café.

“Shame on the Attorney General’s office” for withdrawing the charge, said Charney. “Who would believe that well-trained police officers would do such a thing?”

Personnel at the OPP’s Keele St. detachment referred inquiries to OPP headquarters. A spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

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