Dutch Animal Cops

(Netherlands) While diverting police officers from normal front-line law enforcement duties, the Dutch are planning to launch a 500-officer strong animal welfare police force.

The decision to set up the animal welfare unit, derisively known as the "guinea pig police" and planned to be 500-strong, comes as the government makes austerity cuts to the number of officers carrying out street patrols.[…]

The unit will be ordinary police officers who will be retrained to respond rapidly to emergency calls reporting animal abuse.

A fast-response tactical enforcement team for animal abuse emergencies, eh? Seems to me that the Dutch may want to revisit the appropriateness of their lax drug laws.