IN a welcome sign that land-based law enforcement is being equipped to deal with maritime incidents (well, sort of), police in the UK are now being given formal instruction in how to handle swans. The move comes after years of so-called Hot Fuzz moments in which officers have struggled to...
IN a welcome sign that land-based law enforcement is being equipped to deal with maritime incidents (well, sort of), police in the UK are now being given formal instruction in how to handle swans.
The move comes after years of so-called Hot Fuzz moments in which officers have struggled to keep the feisty aquatic birds away from major roadways – in many cases being forced to awkwardly subdue the creatures and take them away in patrol vehicles.
The special training was conducted at the Slimbridge Wetland Centre wildlife reserve in Gloucestershire, with Stroud Police tweeting that some of its “rural crime officers attended a #SwanHandling course this week…so if we get called to incidents of #swans in the road we can handle them correctly”.
The Hot Fuzz reference is connected to the 2007 comedy movie of the same name, which features a famous scene where two hapless detectives apprehend a menacing swan.
