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Canada’s most famous nude beach is getting its own police detachment of sorts — a pair of RCMP officers posted in a tent.

Nudity, open containers, acoustic guitars and even drug use are still legal on Wreck Beach, but Mounties say they will crack down on overdoses and open-air sexual activity.

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“There’s about 465 stairs to that beach, and that’s really the only point of access unless you come in from the water,” said Sgt. Drew Grainger with the RCMP’s University of British Columbia detachment.

Last summer, he said, the police needed to call in a coast guard hovercraft as often as three times a week to haul away exhibitionists or belligerent drunks.

It’s not going to be the arms crossed, sunglasses on

“It’s an enormous burden on us and other emergency services to deal with that,” he said, adding that placing a seven-day-a-week RCMP tent on the beach would simply be to let people know what is “acceptable.”

“It’s not going to be the arms crossed, sunglasses on, overlooking the crowd,” he said.