Flint has also dealt with cases involving parts of dead animals being offered for sale without the required paperwork, including the saw-like snout or rostrum of a sawfish.
“As soon as you advertise an endangered species for sale you commit the offence,” he warned.
He also has boxes of ivory from the case of a Spalding man who was jailed for illegal ivory trading and a tiger skin rug, which was handed over to officers after an auction house contacted police to check if they were allowed to sell it.
“To be able sell this they would need either an Article 10 certificate, which they didn’t have, or proof it was taxidermied pre 1947.”
The tiger is now used by police for education purposes.