Another interesting media video on how easy it is to impersonate. While the information in the video may be dated and/or wrong for your area, it is still good advice. When in doubt, always check with your local area’s law enforcement to get their advice on what to look for.
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A Video by UPI.com on Police Impersonators
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
City of Midland, MI: How to Spot a Police Impostor
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Great video produced by the Midland, MI Police Department regarding how to spot an impostor. Although this information can vary from city to city, it is a nice effort and a proactive approach to the growing impostor problem we are seeing today.
Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVWqf0Yo8y8
PolicePosers.com mentioned on the KING5 News of Seattle, WA
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009http://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.
Security and Police are two different animals
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007This 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.