A police force thought it knew exactly what to do when it received a tip-off about an imminent jewellery raid.
Uniformed officers were dispatched to the scene of the intended crime with orders to park their patrol car opposite the shop, lock it and leave.
Commanders apparently hoped that the "high visibility" strategy would scare away raiders. They were wrong.
Three armed men pulled up in Alderly Edge, Cheshire, glanced at the empty patrol car and carried out the raid. They escaped with watches and jewellery worth an estimated £500,000.
Yesterday Henry Johnstone, the owner of the family-run jeweller's, condemned the police response as "woefully inadequate" and "ludicrous".
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