Police in the United Kingdom have had to apologize for a big mistake — releasing camera surveillance images of innocent people to the public and labeling them suspects in a crime. Why was the mistake made? Because the date and time function on the surveillance cameras were wrong. 

“Norfolk Constabulary would like to apologise for supplying inaccurate information,” said a police spokesman.

“Police were attempting to trace offenders responsible for theft from a motor vehicle from CCTV images.

“Unfortunately due to an error in the date and time mechanism the wrong images were used.

“We wish to make it clear that the images published of three individuals were not the offenders and are not linked to the crime in any way. We sincerely apologise to all involved.”

Innocent individuals were deemed criminal suspects and had their photos released to the general public because of a technological problem. I’ve written extensively about surveillance cameras.

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