New year's police

"At exactly midnight, everyone has to throw last year's calendar away, because they become officially illegal. And you'd better make sure you do it, too, before the New Year's Police check on you."

- Francine in "Arthur's New Year's Eve"

The New Year's Police are a law-enforcement organization that, according to Francine Frensky monitor that at midnight on New Year's Day, everyone throws out their old calendars. If anyone doesn't, they know, and they come to arrest that individual.

In a fantasy sequence of Arthur Read's, they come to arrest Grandma Thora. They are depicted as wearing party hats.

After hearing hearing of this from Arthur, Binky asks if he's "goofy" and tells him that there are no New Year's Police, but rather a New Year's Eve wrestling match.

As Grandma Thora was not arrested by these police after failing to throw out the old calendars immediately, it is extremely likely that the New Year's Police were just a tale that Francine had invented or heard.