This is the moment undercover police dressed as Power Rangers arrest a suspected thief at a Brazilian carnival.
The cops mingled with other revellers in fancy dress including Robins and Batmans to apprehend and cuff their man.
Around half a dozen officers including a policewoman pinned him to the ground near Ibirapuera Park in the city of Sao Paulo.
Onlookers applauded and filmed the police as they laid out seven mobile phones on the ground in front of him which he is said to have stolen with an accomplice from partying locals and tourists.
The officers then marched him away, barefoot and wearing just a pair of shorts, to a waiting patrol car so he could be taken to a nearby station for formal identification and fingerprinting.
Guilherme Derritte, Sao Paulo state’s Public Security Ministry, published footage of the arrest yesterday afternoon on his official site on X and said: ‘This guy didn’t count on the support of our Civil Police Power Rangers and our military police officers in a beautiful team effort.
‘The carnival cry became the the cry of relief of a population that can no longer stand impunity.
‘Another one handed over to the courts and seven mobile phones recovered.’
Police were today trying to track down a second man described as an accomplice who managed to flee before he could be held.
It is the second year running undercover police wearing fancy dress have been used to identify and apprehend criminals targeting carnival-goers in Sao Paulo.
Officials said nearly 900 mobile phones were stolen during pre-carnival events in the Brazilian state last weekend.
On Valentine’s Day a Peruvian police officer dressed as a capybara carried out a drugs raid.
Video footage showed the giant rodent swooping on a suspected drugs trafficker in the southern American country’s capital city Lima.
He was seen barging into the house, tackling the man to the ground and putting him in handcuffs.
During the raid more than 1,700 packages of cocaine and marijuana were found.
The bizarre clip ended with the capybara posing for the photo with the suspect and the mounds of drugs laid out on a table.
The operation was carried out by Peru’s Escuadron Verde – a specialist anti-drugs unit that often disguises its officers in fancy dress for festivities such as Valentine’s Day, Halloween and Christmas.
They have previously donned Spiderman, Captain America, Thor and Black Widow costumes to carry out drugs raids.
The capybara or greater capybara is the largest living rodent, native to South America.