article_snippet.sent: Detectives investigating the Hatton Garden gem heist missed the most crucial CCTV footage so far until it was flagged up by a shocked worker more than one week later, it is claimed.
article_snippet.sent: The 'crystal clear' footage - said to be of a significantly higher quality than the video currently in the public domain - was handed into the Metropolitan Police by a worker based 50ft from the crime scene.
article_snippet.sent: a worker based 50ft from the crime scene had reportedly contacted 101 - the police non-emergency number - on Monday Last week, believing detectives would already have similar images of the £60m raid.
article_snippet.sent: Detectives investigating the Hatton Garden gem heist missed the most crucial CCTV footage so far until it was flagged up by a shocked worker more than one week later, it is claimed .
article_snippet.sent: A veteran trader in the London ­jewellery quarter told The Sunday Mirror: 'It is unreal it took this employee to bring these images to the attention of the police.
article_snippet.sent: The ­footage could be crucial in collaring the crooks. '
article_snippet.sent: You would assume the officers had done everything to get CCTV footage.'
article_snippet.sent: But although police recorded the call, it was graded so that ‘no police response was deemed to be required’.
article_snippet.sent: It was not until Tuesday morning that detectives realised what had happened.
article_snippet.sent: the new footage is said to be of a significantly higher quality than the video currently in the public domain, which was released last week (pictured) last week, questioned were raised over the police's handling of the case after CCTV footage showing the robbers at work was published in The Daily Mirror - 21 hours before the robbers at work were released by Scotland Yard .
article_snippet.sent: the robbers at work said: 'The Metropolitan Police has ­obtained and is examining a substantial amount of CCTV footage in relation to the burglary at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit. '
article_snippet.sent: Police continue to seize CCTV with assistance from members of the public as the investigation progresses.'
article_snippet.sent: last week, questioned were raised over the police's handling of the case the case after CCTV footage showing the robbers at work was published in The Daily Mirror, 21 hours before they were released by Scotland Yard.
article_snippet.sent: The tabloid claims tabloid handed the images to police, who were 'delighted' with the find.
article_snippet.sent: But detectives later insisted detectives already had the CCTV footage, which detectives claim was recovered 'at the earliest opportunity'.
article_snippet.sent: The furore raised questions about why police chose to keep the new footage to police - or whether police even had the footage - despite it being one of the largest ever burglaries in the capital.
highlights_snippet.sent: Crystal clear' footage was found by worker based 50ft away from scene .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Police reportedly only knew about video when worker flagged it up to Police .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Last week, Scotland Yard released CCTV a day after images were revealed in the media .