POLICE forced to rescue cat with head in jam jar after chasing mouse into the pot .

POLICE had to rescue a cat that tried to fish a mouse out of a jam jar and got its head stuck.

A motorist went to a police station for help after finding the tabby wandering beside a road in Peterborough with the jar on its head and the mouse millimetres from its nose.

A receptionist and three officers pulled and twisted but were unable to

release the cat, police said.

Eventually the animal freed itself - and the mouse - by smashing the jar on the floor of Thorpe Wood police station.

“It was like a scene from Tom and Jerry,” said a police spokeswoman.