Hidden camera footage of surfers threatening two U.K. journalists at Lunada Bay is “disturbing,” Palos Verdes Estates Police Capt. Tony Best said today.

The Guardian newspaper posted the video — which also includes footage from a subsequent conversation with local police — Monday. In it, surfers tell Guardian reporter Rory Carroll and photographer Noah Smith: “If you come up here, you’re gonna get a lot of s–t,” and, “People will just f—ing duke it out, f—ing work your car and get in fights.”

When the pair went report the incident, an unidentified police officer described the climate at the beach as, “It is what it is.”

That officer remains on duty, Best said.

Meanwhile, the department is stepping up patrols, Best said, and trying to identify the surfers.

While Best said he did not recognize the surfers, the female officer videotaped in the Guardian report says, “We know all of them.”

The department wants to get all of the footage from the lobby and the beach to determine if a crime occurred, Best said, adding no official crime report was filed with PVEPD.

“Obviously, we want people to enjoy public space and we don’t condone any of the behavior or the harassing or taunting comments made by the individuals down on that beach,” he said. “We encourage anybody who is in that area and feels threatened or harassed to obviously give us a call at the station.”

Carroll, who could not be reached for comment, reported that when he and the photographer returned to their car from the beach, it was smeared with eggs. The word “kooks” — slang for posers — was written on the windows in surfboard wax.

It was not clear whether Carroll had purposefully gone undercover to produce the story about “localism” at the surf spot or was inspired to compose it after the incident.

Best said the department has not been contacted by the newspaper.

Lunada Bay has long been known for turf wars between a group of surfers known as the Bay Boys, who taunt and harass out-of-towners, sometimes throwing rocks and tampering with vehicles to keep them away.

In January 2014, a large group of surfers converged at the spot in protest of localism, with police monitoring the event.

Best said the day was peaceful — though there was “taunting on both sides” — and that the number of surfers at the spot has not changed since.

“The issue of localism is not unique to Lunada Bay,” he said, adding that the last incident reported to police was in March 2014. Best suspects, however, that more incidents go unreported, especially because people are hesitant to identify aggressors.

The officer who was secretly recorded can be heard saying that the surfers “don’t like anyone that’s not one of the Bay Boys surfing down there. It literally is like a game with kids on the school yard to them, and they don’t want you playing on their swing set. But you know, it is what it is, if you feel uncomfortable, you know, then don’t do it.”

Best declined to comment on the officer’s remarks, citing personnel matters, and said no disciplinary action has been taken, though “we’re looking into” the video.

He said the department does not condone the behavior at the beach and that there have been no discussions about pursuing legal action because individuals were recorded without consent.

“We are more concerned about working on the issues that were identified in the video,” he said. “Obviously, if anyone has information that can help make the beaches safer or reporting crimes, my first choice is they come to the station to report it, not to obtain video from a hidden camera.”

Requests for comment from City Council members were deferred to the police department.