How many levels of dumbass? Let us count the ways:

You didn't LOOK at the effing PICTURE.
Instead you showed up with subguns, ready to break doors and shoot people.
Gloucestershire police spokesman Alexa Collicott said: ‘The information was given to us in good faith and we acted with good intentions.
No, if you had opened your damned eyes and LOOKED, you'd have known there wasn't a problem.
What's the road to hell paved with, again?
 
‘We are sure that the community would rather we acted quickly on information given to us of this nature, in case it had turned out to be a weapon.
The community would rather you bothered to actually check things out before loading your H&Ks and heading out to kick doors, moron.  Suppose he'd been asleep and had a bat or something when you kicking in the doors woke him up?  Then you'd have shot him, and been holding a meeting to announce "He should have known it was police, and should not have resisted."
‘The officers attending were hugely relieved that it wasn’t anything more sinister and we would much rather have a result like this than to put the public in harm’s way by not taking action.’
IT WAS A FREAKING TOY.  YOU PUT THE PUBLIC IN HARM'S WAY BY YOUR ACTIONS, YOU IDIOT.
Somewhere, Robert Peel is weeping.