They’re on a quest for freedom from cell block duty, only to discover there’s no escape from dispensing toilet paper and mopping bloody bathroom floors in a Hollywood blockbuster-esque video clip starring three uniformed Durham police employees.

Their boss is not impressed.

Durham police chief Mike Ewles triggered an internal investigation on Thursday into his staff members — two police officers and a civilian special constable — depicted in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday.

“I have no idea what the motivation for producing this video would be, but I believe it is disrespectful to the hardworking men and women of this branch and embarrassing for everyone here,” said Ewles in a statement.

It’s the latest in a series of high-profile public embarrassments for the Durham Regional Police Service.

The 64-second video clip, set to dramatic background music, shows applications for transfer, naming two officers, stamped DENIED in thick red letters.

Words flash across the screen in between short goofy scenes: “3 officers on a quest for freedom/ Will discover there is no escape/ From cellblock.”

Toilet paper is meted out at a jail cell; a mask-wearing constable mops up what appears to be a blood-smeared bathroom.

“Forced to serve prisoners/ This summer/ How far will they go for freedom?” the text reads.

One officer runs down a hallway with what appears to be a Taser pointed at the camera. Another does snow angels on the hood of a car. They mimic Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s imitation of a drunk driver. They appear to wave happily to a departing U.S. President Barack Obama.

The end credits list more than half a dozen Durham police officers as well as the force’s chief administrative officer and Ford in the “Rob Ford film” dubbed “Central Cells.” It also notes: “Not made on company time.”

The video identifies the police officers as Mike Glennie and Paul Grigoriou, the special constable as Harold Tasson.

The three who appear in the video are the only members of the force under investigation, said Durham police spokesperson Dave Selby, who wouldn’t confirm their names. They haven’t been suspended or re-assigned.

“In this particular case, we’re reviewing it first,” he said. “We cannot go anywhere near identification (of) who these people are, despite the fact that the video’s there.”

It was filmed inside police facilities, using police equipment. One of the officers depicted is a sergeant.

“One employee depicted is a supervisor and that’s even more troubling for me,” said the chief, whose force was described as invocative of National Lampoon’s Animal House by Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin.

That was following a 2013 incident in which then-Det. Jeff Caplan sent the Ombudsman obnoxious tweets in the wake of the deadly police shooting of Sammy Yatim on a streetcar in July.

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Caplan, an award-winning fraud investigator, sent the tweets from a parody account used by the unit for practical jokes, linked to the email address another officer in the fraud squad. He was demoted for nine months and ordered to participate in training on workplace harassment as punishment.

Ewles himself came under fire in 2011 when the Durham police association accused him of misconduct using his clout to get friends off the hook, allegations Ewles was cleared of by an independent investigation.