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TIL an undercover officer was led on a chase of a suspicious person. A CCTV officer used cameras to tell him where the suspect was at throughout the chase. After 20 minutes they discovered that the "suspect" was actually the undercover officer chasing himself at the direction of the CCTV officer.

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