It was an ordinary Sunday night in Sydney, Australia, when two police officers saw a stolen silver Toyota driving erratically along the highway. As the car had allegedly been used in a nearby armed robbery, the two officers gave chase.

The woman driver and her male passenger had two collisions before smashing into a sign at a petrol station, at this point the driver made a run for it but she was caught by one of the officers. However, the male passenger managed to escape, before doubling back to the petrol station. Where he got into the empty police car and drove away.

Surprisingly, police chief Arthur Katsogiannis denied the force had been left red-faced by the theft, commenting that we need to put things into context put things in context and say what a good job the police officers did. He did, however, concede that police officer training stipulates the importance of removing the keys from the ignition.

smh.com.au