{"id":20099,"date":"2024-12-30T17:47:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/psni-search-for-man-impersonating-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T17:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:47:31","slug":"psni-search-for-man-impersonating-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/psni-search-for-man-impersonating-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI search for man &#8216;impersonating police officer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police have said they are making enquiries after receiving a report of a man impersonating a police officer in Ballymena.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">At about 19:30 on Saturday the police said they received a report of a dark-coloured Audi A3, driven by a man, used flashing lights on his vehicle to stop another car in Crankill Road.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The driver believed this to be a police vehicle and pulled over, but became suspicious after the man could not produce any form of official police identification and was not wearing a uniform.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police said the driver then drove off and was followed by the man in his vehicle, which they believe had two other passengers inside, for a short time. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The police said the man is described as being aged in his 20s and of slim build. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">They said he was also wearing a woolly hat, grey tracksuit bottoms and a jacket.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police said their enquiries are at an early stage and are continuing to determine who was involved and establishing a motive. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The police said that it is an offence to impersonate a police officer, adding this type of behaviour will be dealt with by way of investigation and potential prosecution.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9dp2yyvn1xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have said they are making enquiries after receiving a report of a man impersonating a police officer in Ballymena. At about 19:30 on Saturday the police said they received a report of a dark-coloured Audi A3, driven by a man, used flashing lights on his vehicle to stop another car in Crankill Road. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7715,417,1456,599,1339,376],"class_list":["post-20099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-impersonating","tag-man","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-psni","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20101,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099\/revisions\/20101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}