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<\/p>\nTwo police officers grin as they have their very own Hot Fuzz moment – capturing a runaway swan.<\/p>\n
One officer from Hampshire Constabulary can be seen smiling as she holds the large bird after retrieving it.<\/p>\n
The swan must have caused a flap among locals as the officers were responding to a report about a swan in possible distress in Hampshire\u00a0<\/p>\n
The swan was found on a busy road near a roundabout in Portsmouth.<\/p>\n
The two officers even wrapped the swan in what appears to be a jacket as they safety returned the the big-footed bird to water.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Two officers return the swan to the water and its family after responding to a report of concern for a swan that was in the middle of a road<\/p>\n
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The runaway swan returning to its family in the Hilsea Lido in the Portsmouth area of Hampshire<\/p>\n
In a second picture, the runaway swan rejoins its five-strong family in the Hilsea Lido.<\/p>\n
In classic British comedy movie Hot Fuzz, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s police officer characters eventually capture a troublemaking swan.<\/p>\n
They are famously asked, ‘no luck catching them swans, then?’ throughout the film by locals in the fictional town of Sandford as they struggle to track down the suspect with a ‘long, slender neck’ – a description the police in Portsmight were also given.<\/p>\n
It didn’t take the two officers from Hampshire Constabulary as long – they managed to catch the swan in one night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement published on Facebook on Tuesday,\u00a0<\/p>\n
They wrote: ‘This evening the team responded to a report of a concern for welfare of an animal in the middle of the road.<\/p>\n
‘The following description was given…. “Its about two feet tall, long slender neck, kinda orange and black bill”<\/p>\n
‘Anything else?… “Well It’s a Swan”.’<\/p>\n
‘We are pleased to say we managed to locate and reunite the Swan with its family at the Hilsea Lido.’<\/p>\n