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 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".
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The anonymous officer, believed to be the PC's sergeant, told the monthly magazine: "An officer who joined a team in Sussex as a new probationary officer was soon very keen to do any plain-clothes operations and be as proactive as possible. "He would be waiting at the end of his shift hoping to be unleashed for a further couple of hours of plain-clothes duties. ... "With the sergeant's sides aching from laughter he pointed out to the PC that the operator had been watching him unaware that he was a pain-clothes officer - thus the PC had been chasing himself round the streets."
"He would be waiting at the end of his shift hoping to be unleashed for a further couple of hours of plain-clothes duties.
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"With the sergeant's sides aching from laughter he pointed out to the PC that the operator had been watching him unaware that he was a pain-clothes officer - thus the PC had been chasing himself round the streets."
