Cops chase suspected burglars through a park on a gardener's truck

This is the bizarre moment police chased down eight suspected crooks as they tried to flee across a park – by hitching a lift in the back of a gardener’s truck.

Bodycam footage shows the two officers perched on a shopping trolley which is in the back of the flatbed van as it speeds across the grass in pursuit of the thieves.

One cop is heard radioing a colleague in a patrol car near the park in Sheldon, Birmingham, saying: “They’re going round the park.