Police in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire have been called to a most unusual type of break-in and forced to put their best animal skills to the test to remove the intruder.

Officers were called to a home in Engadine late on Saturday night after a woman found a koala on her window ledge.

She brought the curious marsupial inside and when she couldn’t work out what to do with it and wasn’t able to get onto animals services, she called the police.

Fortunately, one of the attending officers is a WIRES volunteer and helped move the koala outside.

NSW Police media posted the case on its Facebook page , where it’s attracted more than four thousand comments and been shared close to one thousand times.

“Sutherland Police recently responded to reports of a rare tree doggo inside a local home,” the post read.

The koala was found by the owner of the Engadine home. (Twitter)