Video: Horse wanders into police station

IT was more a case of ‘why the long face’ than the long arm of the law after an inquisitive horse wandered into a police station in Cheshire from a nearby field.

The horse enters the police station, unmoved by the man's attempts to shoo it away. Picture: YouTube/Screengrab

CCTV at the Cheshire Police headquarters in Winsford showed the four-legged visitor meander up to the automatic doors, ignoring a man’s attempts to shoo it away.

The horse then disappears off-camera before coming back and exiting the police station, nabbing a kind word and a stroke from a passing officer on the way.

The equestrian visitor was safely escorted back to his nearby paddock.

The horse enters the police station, unmoved by the man's attempts to shoo it away. Picture: YouTube/Screengrab

A spokesperson from Cheshire Police said: “During the early hours of the morning on Monday 6th of October, a local resident decided to check out Police HQ and was captured on CCTV.

“Security staff at HQ were quick off the mark to greet a horse that had decided to investigate the HQ.

“The brown and white horse resides in a field near the HQ and was quickly escorted back to its residence having investigated the goings on at HQ.”

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