... And when the cops get it all wrong

And finally, sometimes even the boys in blue can be left red-faced when things don’t quite go to plan.

Earlier this year Kent Police apologised to the owner of an antiques shop in Ashford after bungling cops stormed the store by mistake during a series of drug raids.

Furious owner David Bracewell was left hopping mad after 12 officers came crashing into the shop on the hunt for cannabis on the back of dodgy intelligence.

Mr Bracewell, who wasn’t in when they battered down his door, said: “If they’d used their brains, they could have come the day before as I was working 10am until 4pm, and seen there was no cannabis farm here.”

Picture: Barry Goodwin Owner David Bracewell outside his shop which police raided by mistake