Police have taken into custody a parrot which alerted its drug-dealing owner of police presence during a raid in northern Brazil.

The Parrot was said to have shouted “Mummy, police” as soon as security operatives arrived at a house in the Vila Irma Dulce neighbourhood of the city of Teresina.

The green-feathered bird which was taken into custody where it was photographed perched inside a chicken-wire cage, before being transferred to Teresina Zoo.

The parrot was owned by a drug dealer nicknamed “India” who had been arrested twice for drug trafficking in the past.

“He must have been trained for that,” said one officers involved in the operation.

“As soon as police got close he began shouting. Lots of police officers have come by and he’s said nothing,” said local vet Alexandre Clark.

Footage of the raid’s aftermath aired by R7 showed police cataloguing small bags of crack, while the parrot sits obediently on a countertop next to a racecar helmet and a glass bottle.

Husband of the drug dealer who owns the bird was identified only as Edvan, 30, and he was arrested after crack cocaine was found in the house during the raid.

The couple’s 16-year-old daughter who was found with cannabis in her underwear was released with a warning according to Brazilian TV station Globo.