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Police in Gloucester have spent part of their morning inadvertently recreating a scene from Simon Pegg comedy Hot Fuzz.

Called to reports of a swan on the loose, officers headed to Quedgeley where they proceeded to try and corner the rogue bird.

A video posted to one of Gloucestershire Constabulary's Twitter accounts shows the intrepid officers then releasing the bird into a 'safe place' unharmed.

They said: "Earlier this morning PC Lane and PCSO Kent swooped into action after a report of a swan in the road in Quedgeley.

"After a bit of swanning around the Officers managed to catch the swan & it was released in a safe place. #HotFuzz"

In the film, Simon Pegg's character Sergeant Nicholas Angel takes a call from a Peter Ian Staker - we'll leave you to work out the joke there - regarding a missing swan and thinks it's a wind-up.

But it becomes a running theme in the movie as he and colleage Danny Butterman chase the bird around the fictional Gloucestershire village of Sandford.