City’s Police “Feline Unit” Pulls Over Speeding Motorist

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Salina City’s Police “Feline Unit” Pulls Over Speeding Motorist

admin | April 4, 2016 | Cats, News



Utah Police Chief Eric Pratt and his feline sidekick Officer Froo Froo pull over a speeding motorist doing 91mph in an 80mph zone.

There are two things to consider before reading any further. Number one, a feline cat unit? And two, this all happened on April 1’st 2016. After seeing this motorist doing 91mph Officer Pratt decided to deploy his April fools joke. After pulling the motorist over he asked the driver for his driver’s license and registration, and then tells them he can detect an odor coming from the car?

Utah police chief Eric Pratt pulled a hilarious April Fools' Day prank during a traffic stop with the help of his 'drug-sniffing' cat Officer Froo Froo (pictured is the motorist and passenger bursting into laughter after the joke)

He then goes on to explain he would have to go back to his car and get a member of the Feline Unit, officer Froo Froo, who just happens to be a member of the drug-sniffing cat unit?! ‘So what I’m going to do, I’m going to deploy my cat around the outside of your vehicle. If the cat indicates the odor of a controlled substance, we’re going to go from there, OK? Does that make sense to you?’ The occupants of the car agree to this rather surprising turn of events, and Officer Pratt goes back to his patrol cat to get Officer Froo Froo.

Pratt went onto explain that his cat - Officer Froo Froo - had been on the force for eight years and would meow three times in a row if she detected the presence of marijuana, cocaine, or any other controlled substances

He returns back to the suspect’s car with his feline sidekick and explains that should Officer Froo Froo detect a prohibited substances he would meow three times in a row. He then proceeds to do a circuit of the cat with his trained narcotics detecting cat in tow. He then stops beside a woman in the rear seat of the vehicle and asks if she has anything she should not have in the vehicle? She swears that she does not have anything on her, or for that matter in the vehicle that she should not have. And this is when Officer Pratt can not contain his self any longer and loses control.

Watch it all here:



‘You guys, I can’t keep playing with you,’ he told them. ‘This is an April Fools’ joke. The driver and passengers looked stunned before bursting into laughter. ‘I’ve been wanting to do this for a while,’ he told them. ‘I’m sorry I had to try it. Do you forgive me?’ ‘I don’t know yet!’ the motorist joked.

Pratt, who used to run the department’s canine unit, let the driver off with a warning for speeding, saying; ‘if you’ll slow down for me and don’t make a complaint to my city, we’ll call it good.’ Since posting it to the department’s Facebook page, the video has already attracted more than 2.5 million views.

Pratt also posted a message to any potential complainers about the use of police resources.’Before anyone gets too carried away (there’s always a few), no tax payer dollars were spent in relation to this video. ‘The few minutes of fuel will be paid for by me, I’m a salaried employee and this is on my own time, and last but not least, my sweet cat Froo Froo was not injured during this incident.

‘The stop was legitimate (speeding), and my decision to give a warning was legitimate (I regularly warn for 11 over, which is what the stop was for). Smile people, it’s April Fool’s Day!’

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