A stunning image released by British prosecutors captures an embarrassing moment as a police officer fails to catch a criminal within three feet of him.
Etmond Lika, 32, was wanted by police in connection with the production of cannabis, a controlled Class B drug in the UK.
But police have had difficulty catching him, with the photo showing an officer looking out of a skylight in Liverpool as Lika lies on the roof just above the officer’s head.
Eventually the local police caught him and he was prosecuted for his crimes. The court sentenced Lika to two years and four months, the Crown Prosecution Service told Fox News Digital.
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British police have a habit of letting their mistakes make the headlines, such as the 2017 case where police in Cumbria found a suspicious vehicle outside their department and had it blown up by bomb squad.
Merseyside Police failed to notice suspect Etmond Lika, 32, a meter away on the rooftops during a strip search. (Crown Prosecution Service)
Officers soon learned the car belonged to a man who had fallen ill and gone to hospital, and police had parked his car outside their offices for safe keeping, but forgot to tell the rest of the team. , the BBC reported.
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Another explosive incident for police occurred when a police team donated knives collected in a nationwide cleanup to an artist to create a “knife angel” sculpture, but accidentally included two bags of explosives in the donation.
Close up of Etmond Lika hiding on top of a police officer as Merseyside Police search for him. (Crown Prosecution Service)
The force responsible for the mistake has never identified itself.
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Errors by the police force also extended to investigations and procedures, such as when Police Scotland executed the wrong warrant, looking for a drug dealer suspected of carrying an offensive weapon when they intended to arrest him on charges of intending to supply heroin and “street valium”. ”
The suspect was released on drug charges, although he was tried for breaching bail conditions, the Greenock Telegraph reported.
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And CambridgeAndCounty Police once spent a great deal of time and effort searching for a 57-year-old Lithuanian man named Vytautas Jokubauskas, only to realize they had used the photo for a 50-year-old Vytautas Jokubauskus who had never set foot in the Kingdom United
