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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

PARANOIA in the real world: UK cop chases himself 

According to a February 7, 2012 story by Andrew Hough in The Daily Telegraph (UK), a British undercover police officer accidentally chased himself for 20 minutes:
An undercover police officer "chased himself round the streets" for 20 minutes after a CCTV operator mistook him for a suspect.

The junior officer, who has not been named, was monitoring an area hit by a series of burglaries in an unnamed market town in the country’s south.

As the probationary officer from Sussex Police searched for suspects, the camera operator radioed that he had seen someone "acting suspiciously" in the area. But he failed to realise that it was actually the plain-clothed officer he was watching on the screen, according to details leaked to an industry magazine. The operator directed the officer, who was on foot patrol, as he followed the "suspect" on camera last month, telling his colleague on the ground that he was "hot on his heels."

The officer spent around 20 minutes giving chase before a sergeant came into the CCTV control room, recognised the "suspect" and laughed hysterically at the mistake.
Posted by: Allen Varney / 12:58 PM

Comments:
I loved that story when I saw it circulating on Google+. I wonder how long I can get my troubleshooters to unwittingly follow themselves for...
# posted by Blogger Unknown : February 18, 2012 10:06 PM
 
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