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Cop Chase Cop of the Day: A bungling CCTV camera operator monitoring an unidentified town in Sussex sent an undercover police officer chasing after a suspicious person without realizing that person was the undercover cop.

A junior officer working undercover in the market town spent 20 minutes searching for the suspect after the camera operator informed him of someone in the vicinity “acting suspiciously.”

It wasn’t until a sergeant entered the control room and realized the plain-clothed officer was “hot on the heels” of himself that the pursuit was called off.

The insider who leaked details of the embarrassing debacle to Police magazine said the sergeant’s sides were “aching from laughter” as he informed the operator of his error.

“We’ve had a couple of funnies lately,” a Sussex Police source told The Daily Telegraph, “but all taken in good spirit.”

[telegraph / photo: stripedsweater.]

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