Police officers in Geneva who unwittingly commissioned hundreds of counterfeit T-shirts and caps carrying the official Euro 2008 logo have been found out by their own special anti-fraud unit set up for the tournament.

Officers had 500 shirts and 250 caps made with the Geneva police and Euro 2008 logos, with the order worth around €6,200, Geneva police spokesman Jean-Philippe Brandt said.

However, when colleagues from the anti-fraud unit investigated the company that made them they found it did not have permission from organisers UEFA to use the tournament logo as it had claimed, he added.

Police immediately stopped selling the items to the public and are waiting for a decision from UEFA before deciding what to do with them, Mr Brandt said.

“We might just give them away at a sports event we are planning in September,” he said.

The tournament being co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland gets underway on Saturday and ends on June 29.

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