PolicePosers.com

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Investigators–Police-Posers-behind-high-profile-crimes–71834742.html

A small excerpt from the article itself:

by CHRIS INGALLS / KING 5 Investigators

Posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:51 PM

SEATTLE – A series of recent high-profile crimes all have a common thread. They involve people posing as police officers.

The KING 5 Investigators have learned it may be more than coincidence that there are so many “police posers” on the streets these days and that it is often hard to tell them apart from the good guys.

To passers-by at a Federal Way truck stop earlier this year, it looked like law enforcement was taking down one of its own. A marked K-9 vehicle was pulled over, the man driving it placed in cuffs, and the sidearm from his holster seized. He was stopped by an off-duty King County detective who saw the car driving down I-5 and played a hunch it wasn’t an actual cop.

The rest of the article and video shed a lot of light on the impostor problems the Seattle area is facing which spurred the article. Thank you Chris for the work done on the article and the video.

This video was posted on our forums. This goes to show why we don’t think security should try confusing the public with the use of police cruisers and lighting. As you can see, when surrounded by the environment of police equipment, you will eventually think you are police and slip up. As you can see from the news report, two security guards were accused of pursuing copper thieves on public streets using their vehicle’s illegal lights and siren to blow through busy intersections before the real police showed up. Both vehicles allegedly contained illegal lights and sirens (installation and use are restricted in California). As the police officer stated in the video and we have said, security are to observe and report in most cases, nothing more.