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."