PETALING JAYA: An errant policeman suspended from the force stole another policeman’s uniform to impersonate an active officer to extort money from the public.
The impersonator, suspended from the force in 2005 for disciplinary problems, was arrested on Saturday.
The 34-year-old man was apprehended at a restaurant here when he turned up to collect extortion money.
It is learnt that the man had smashed a police officer’s car window and escaped with the uniform and other belongings.
He then donned the uniform and tried to extort money from the public.
The restaurant owner, suspecting something amiss, lodged a police report.
Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed confirmed the incident and said the man had been remanded until today.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, two teenagers impersonated policemen and robbed a group of teenagers playing futsal at Kelana Jaya early yesterday morning.
The two, aged 17 and 18, approached the group and asked them to show their identity cards before robbing them of their cash and valuables in the 3am incident.
Thirty minutes later, the two then tried to robbed another group of students in a hostel in Ara Damansara but the tables were turned on them when the students asked for their authority cards, said ACP Arjunaidi.
“The two tried to run away, but one of them was caught after the students chased them. One escaped,” Arjunaidi said in a press conference yesterday.
Initial investigations revealed the two as school dropouts.
Police reported recovering some of the stolen items.
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