Vancouver police officers played the role of wildlife rescuer when responding to a call last week.
Officers arrived in east Vancouver to investigate a disturbance Friday and found a person carrying a baby raccoon.
Keeping wild animals is illegal, so officers contacted the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to make a plan. Fish and Wildlife staff told officers that “the safest course for the animal was to release it back to the wild,” said Britton Ransford, a department spokesperson…