This is the moment a parkour-trained officer chases a suspect over back garden fences in scenes reminiscent of Hot Fuzz.
The Scotland Yard officer channels his inner Nicholas Angel as he athletically hurdles over the wooden panelled barrier.
A 24-year-old male is shown in the bodycam footage hopping over the fences in an attempt to evade the pursuing officer in an incident reminiscent of the 2007 comedy classic.
The impressively agile officer eventually catches and arrests him in a ‘cinematic end’ in a garage after following him into three gardens.
In Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg’s character chases after a suspect by jumping over garden fences.
In the classic scene, Angel tells Nick Frost’s character, PC Danny Butterman: ‘What’s the matter, Danny? Have you never taken a shortcut before?’
Similarly, in the video of the real-life chase, the Met Police officer wastes no time in hopping a fence to chase the suspect in southeast London.
He then climbs onto bins to follow the suspect into the next garden, before jumping a final fence where he detains him in someone’s garage.
This is the moment a parkour-trained officer chases a suspect over back garden fences in scenes reminiscent of Hot Fuzz
In Hot Fuzz, Simon Pegg’s character chases after a suspect by jumping over garden fences
The Scotland Yard officer channels his inner Nicholas Angel as he athletically hurdles over the wooden panelled barrier in pursuit of a 24-year-old male
The suspect, who has not been named by police, was arrested and later charged with dangerous driving and possession with intent to supply.
A caption for the Met Police video jokes that the suspect hadn’t accounted for his chaser’s ‘Nicholas-Angel-level cardio’.
‘Straight out of Hot Fuzz, this suspect tried the classic ‘garden-fence getaway’,’ the caption said, ‘Except he didn’t account for one thing: an officer with parkour training and Nicholas-Angel-level cardio.
‘In under 30 seconds, the chase was over and the suspect was arrested for the greater good.
‘No swans were harmed. No model villages destroyed. Just one very short-lived escape attempt brought to an abrupt and cinematic end.
‘If you’ve ever wondered what happens when real policing meets full-tilt action-movie energy* this is it.’
The suspect appeared at Woolwich Crown Court last month, where he pleaded not guilty to possessing with intent to supply class B drugs.
He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and was handed an interim disqualification.
A trial date has been set for September 2029.
