Police officers said they made a “snappy arrival” when they received reports of a baby crocodile being spotted in a body of water.
Suffolk Police said it was called to the Mill Stream area, off Foxhall Road, Ipswich, on Saturday morning,”expecting some crocodile wrestling”.
In a tweet, it said the “unusual incident… turned out to be a false alarm this time”.
A plastic crocodile was removed from the stream.
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