A controlled explosion was carried out on a 'suspicious' car on the street outside the station... only for police to realise that officers had placed the car there in the first place.
Police have apologised to the owner of the vehicle.
A resident of the street on which bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion of a car outside Workington Police Station says officers then used an automated robot to search the suspicious vehicle.
Martyn Benson received a knock on his door by a police officer at around 7:20am this morning.
The sister of the man, whose car has been damaged by a controlled explosion by Cumbria Police, says they apologised to him in person today.
The 'suspicious' vehicle, on which a controlled explosion was carried out, had actually been parked there by the police.
A controlled explosion was carried out on a 'suspicious' car outside the police station.