A police officer in Baltimore may need a quick lesson in how their body cameras work, after he accidentally filmed himself planting drugs at a crime scene and immediately returning to ‘find’ them.

That’s if he still has a job, because all three of the officers in the clip below are now facing disciplinary action.

According to the Baltimore Sun, the public defender’s office says the footage comes from a drug arrest in January.

That case is now under review, as are others that involve the police officer filmed performing the plant.

Watch this moron shoot himself in the foot – there is no audio for the first 30 seconds:

Here’s what the cop fails to realise – police body cameras have a feature that saves the 30 seconds of video before activation, albeit without audio. That’s why when the officer is first in the alley, there is no audio.

The public defender’s office flagged the video for prosecutors last week, prompting prosecutors to drop the heroin possession charge against the man arrested.

The man, unable to post $50,000 bail, had been in jail since January, according to attorney Deborah Levi, who is leading a new effort to track police misconduct cases for the public defender’s office…

The footage, which garnered national attention Wednesday, comes as prosecutors and police continue to deal with the fallout from the federal indictment of seven members of an elite police gun squad.

Those officers are accused of robbing citizens, filing false court paperwork and claiming overtime they had not earned.

Prosecutors have since dropped dozens of cases that depended on those officers’ testimony.

Dirty, dirty cops. Sounds like we might need to see another season of The Wire.

[source:baltimoresun]