This is the moment an albino Burmese python struck fear into police officers after being unfurled at the station.<br /><br />Rescuer workers caught the rare snake after it slithered into a house in Saraburi, central Thailand, on Thursday (November 21).<br /><br />The reptile, a protected species, is believed to have escaped from its enclosure where it was being kept as a pet or had been living in the wild.<br /><br />Footage shows the chaos in the police station after rescue workers dumped the albino Burmese python outside the sergeant's office.<br /><br />Officers needed to record the case because the snake is one of Thailand's protected species and the rescuers were afraid of releasing it back into the wild.<br /><br />The wildlife worker who caught the python said it might have escaped from a house where it was being kept as an expensive pet.<br /><br />He said: "The python is a special Thai snake species and that was why I took it to the police.''<br /><br />Inquiry inspector, Police Captain Siriluck Huabsakul from Saraburi police, said that she recorded the incident because the python is a rare species.<br /><br />She said: "The reptile needs to be kept by the rescue team for 15 days, if we cannot find the owner we need to send it to the wildlife preservation."<br /><br />Thai albino Burmese python, or python molurus bivittatus, is listed under the country's Wild Animal Reservation and Protection Act 1992.<br /><br />The animals are found near water and appear at nighttime.