Trivia

The Spanish language version of this film, "Ladrones", became the very first talkie in Spanish ever shown in Argentina when its exhibitor, Max Glücksmann, presented it in the city of Mar del Plata in February, 1930. It was also the first Spanish-language short to be released by Hal Roach Studios.

When Laurel and Hardy toured British music halls in the 1950s, Laurel reworked the plot of this short into a stage sketch titled "A Spot of Trouble".

First film to use what would become Laurel and Hardy's theme music by Marvin Hatley - "Dance of the Cuckoos".

The Laurel and Hardy sound short with the least amount of dialog from the pair.

This film is a comedy, but it also serves as a protest against both law-enforcement corruption in general, and specific police-misconduct practices such as entrapment, coercion, merely-for-show activities that don't actually solve/reduce underlying problems, quotas, over-zealousness, targeting less-fortunate members of humanity, etc.