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Bath police escort swan in Hot Fuzz-style incident

Simon Galloway/SWNS A police officer uses his jacket to guide a swan along the street in Bath city centre as shoppers look onSimon Galloway/SWNS
A police officer and his colleagues guided the young swan away from the public

A police officer has been photographed ushering a swan to safety, emulating a scene from the comedy film Hot Fuzz.

The officer and two colleagues were seen guiding the bird away from shoppers in Bath city centre, in an incident believed to have happened on Sunday.

People can be seen laughing and staring as the trio direct the swan towards the nearest river.

Avon and Somerset Police have been approached for comment.

The incident bears similarities to a plot line in Hot Fuzz, in which actor Simon Pegg, who grew up in Gloucestershire and studied at the University of Bristol, plays police officer Nicholas Angel.

SWNS A police officer uses a fluorescent police jacket to guide the young swanSWNS
The incident happened in Bath on Sunday

The character, who had been used to a busy policing patch in London, is unamused when he is called to a report of a missing swan in sleepy fictional village of Sandford.

Fellow actor Nick Frost imitates the swan as the pair try to catch the bird, before a shop-keeper delivers the famous line from the film - "no luck catching them swans then?".

The majority of the comedy was filmed in Wells, Somerset, just 19 miles (30km) away from Bath.

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