A little girl of four was threatened with arrest after being caught picking daffodils in her local park.
Sienna, her stepsister Olivia, six, and sister India, 10, were enjoying a day at Whitecliffe Park in Dorset with their parents Marc Marengo and Jane Errington when they were confronted by the police.
A local councillor had reported seeing the children picking the flowers.
The police took no action, but Ms Errington accused them of being heavy-handed, and claimed Sienna was now too scared to go back to the park.
She said: 'Surely the police have better ways to spend their time and taxpayers' money?'
Poole councillor Peter Adams, who reported the family to the police said: We are very proud of our parks and can't have people ripping up public property.
'The children weren't just taking one or two daffodils, it was big clumps of them.'
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