Madelyn Moore is officially the fastest police officer in the world.

That title was earned in the pool at the World Police Games in Dominican Republic, where Moore won five gold medals and one silver medal by beating serving officers from more than 30 countries.

Largely thanks to Moore’s exploits in winning the 50 and 100 metres freestyle, the 50 and 100 metres backstroke and the 50 metres butterfly, Bermuda finished fourth in the event’s medal table

After returning to the island, Moore, who has represented Bermuda at the Pan American Games and Central American and Caribbean Games, spoke about her pride in representing the Bermuda Police Service with distinction.

“I was definitely happy with how I competed,” Moore said.

“I entered the 50s and the 100s in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, thinking that I was probably going to scratch the 100s just because I don’t really train for them any more.

“But then I saw the times people had entered with and thought I could still be competitive and try to bring back a few more medals for Team Bermuda. I’m glad I did because I won five golds and a silver, which was pretty cool.”

Moore achieved near-domination of her rivals, but she was still impressed with the standard of her competition, with a few police officers competing on the international circuit.

“This event is specifically for police officers, but there are some people like me who are still actively competing in swimming,” Moore said.

“I went to the technical meeting the day before the competition started and some people had put no times in, so you couldn’t really get a gauge on where people were at.

“So definitely in the first event I went all out because I wasn't leaving anything to chance. There was a girl from Czech Republic, who beat me in the 100 butterfly but she only had one event that day and I had four, and they were all back-to-back-to-back, so I was winded by the end of it.

“She just touched me out, but I was super happy with the outcomes because my times were on par with where I was at the CAC Games.”

Moore was excited to take part in the event, as it came after a week in which she celebrated a friend’s wedding in Las Vegas.

“The event had been on my radar for a little while and luckily it worked because I had just been to my friend’s wedding in Vegas. I came straight from the wedding and then started competing the next day.

“I did as much as I could at the wedding. I’m not much of a partier, but I did have a good time.”

The World Police and Fire Games in Australia in March could be next on the agenda, but that may prove difficult to attend given that it will affect her work at BPS.

“I would be honoured to go and represent the Bermuda Police Service, but I don’t think it is putting an organised team together like it did for this event,” Moore said.

“I know that officers are free to go, but this time around it would obviously be at their own expense and probably using their annual-leave days, but I would love to go to Australia and compete again.”