The borough is actively seeking to contact those persons whose images were released and will be offering personal apologies once they have been identified.' She said: 'Newham Borough Police regret this mistake and any embarrassment it has caused, and wish to apologise unreservedly to those affected. Police added that the package also included scenes from The Firm as it included parallels between the real-life fracas and the fictional fights depicted in the film.ДЄ spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Service apologised for the error. The Met put the mix-up down to it having been supplied with footage screened on the night of the game, which included shots of actual rioters. The police have asked us to pass on to the men concerned their sincere apologies for this mistake.' 'Six of the images supplied by the police were sent by them in error and the men pictured were not wanted for any crime. The original version of The Firm, starring Gary Oldman, was shown on BBC2 in the 1980s.ДЄ statement on the BBC's Crimewatch website said: 'Yesterday we published photographs of 66 men supplied by the police who told us they were wanted in connection with violent behaviour at a football match. The film was released shortly after the trouble at West Ham's Upton Park ground in east London, during a Carling Cup game against local rivals Millwall on 25 August. The images did not appear on screen, but they were posted on the programme's website.ДЄlthough most of them pictured people who were allegedly involved in the violence, they also included six headshots of actors who appeared in The Firm, a British film centred on football-related violence.

The corporation today also blamed the Met for the mistake, saying police had provided its Crimewatch show with the images.Д®arlier this week the police released 66 shots of people they want to trace following violence during a football match between West Ham and Millwall in August.Д¬rimewatch ran an item about the search for the suspects on BBC1 on Wednesday night. The Sun is expected to run another story tomorrow admitting its mistake and blaming the Met for the error. Yesterday the Sun also printed the pictures of The Firm actors on under the headline 'Hooligan Hunt' on page 25 after the Metropolitan police supplied them to the paper. But the sinister security agents of the firm, headed by William Devasher (Wilford Brimley) are also in pursuit of McDeere, and they will stop at nothing to silence McDeere and protect their interests.The BBC has admitted it posted pictures of actors from the film The Firm on the Crimewatch website and wrongly claimed they were football hooligans earlier this week.

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