In the UK, impersonating a police officer is a criminal offence under Section 90 of the Police Act 1996.
The law covers several situations:
Pretending to be a police officerIf you intentionally deceive someone by claiming to be a police officer or special constable when you are not, you commit an offence. This includes verbal claims, showing fake identification, or behaving in a way intended to make people believe you are an officer.
Doing something that falsely suggests you are police
You do not necessarily have to say "I am a police officer." Any statement or act calculated to make someone believe you are police can be enough.
Wearing police uniform or items that closely resemble it
A non-officer can commit an offence by wearing police uniform, or something so similar that it is likely to deceive people into thinking they are police.
Possessing police uniform or identification
Having police uniform, badges, warrant cards, or similar items without a lawful reason can itself be an offence.
@ZacGoldsmith You're referring to yourself. You're defending a genocidal regime because you're not worth a single penny. That's why you need to worship Israel to make a living. You have no value in this life.
What a disgusting piece of human trash you are!
This so depressing.
Zac Goldsmith has just called Zack Polanski “human trash”
Just a reminder: Goldsmith once ran to be London Mayor.
@ZackPolanski@ZacGoldsmith
This hero risked his life to save others 🥺 we're sending our condolences to his family 🙏💜
Rushabh Patel, 28, was enjoying a family picnic with his wife and young daughter when he spotted two people struggling in the River Great Ouse in England.
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Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide.
The experts already have.
A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading rights orgs all agree: it's genocide.
Andy, why won't you call it what it is?
@WestminsterWAG This is an incredibly antisemitic thing to reply to a Jewish man who wants to ensure prosecution for individuals who may have committed war crimes. You are comparing him to a Nazi.
You are beyond shameless.
What a disgusting comment! Denigrating the suffering & racism of the Holocaust, minimising the horrific death & destruction of the genocide to make what she thinks is a clever riposte in support of her deeply reactionary politics
I suggest that anyone interested in @LordJohnMann’s history of benefiting from the gravy train go on the ‘They Work For You’ register of interests website. He has many years of accepting free trips all over the world to attend antisemitism conferences. The donations he’s personally received from Sir Trevor Chinn, his exploitation of the All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) racket for getting a raft of free travel, accommodation and hospitality at cultural and sporting events at home and abroad. Having for many years employed his wife as his Parliamentary assistant, she was able to accompany him on all those jollies although she was never referred to by name on the register. Mann is the ultimate grifter, a rabble-rouser and legendary weaponiser of antisemitism to smear his opponents. His ambushing of Ken Livingstone in 2016 was as unedifying as it gets. Rewarded of course for his years of ‘service’ with a lifetime seat in the Lords.
@UKLabour@LordJohnMann@UKHouseofLords
@RUKWales Have you asked @Nigel_Farage about the £5 million 'gift' he got for several different reasons depending on when he was asked? It's almost seems like you lot are full of shit...
Parliament has the power to Expel MP's, The House of Commons itself has the power to permanently expel an MP by voting to pass a resolution to remove them.
Someone should put forward a vote on Farage after what he did yesterday.
.@LordJohnMann is an Israel apologist. His report on so-called 'antisemitism' in the NHS was commissioned by @wesstreeting, another Israel apologist. But AS in the NHS is nonexistent. The real purpose of Mann's report is to silence opposition to genocide.
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"My personal pride and joy." That's how Peter Mandelson described the Palantir deal he brokered.
The whole thing stinks. Kick Palantir out of our NHS, now.
Zack Polanski criticised the police for being heavy handed with a RT and he got a formal rebuke from the police and got grilled by the media.
Farage incites riots and condemns the police causing them of murder and nothing.
Two tier media more like.
Here's another low-life scum that can be added to the arrest list for the Southampton riots. Laurence Fox seen here blatantly inciting an angry crowd. #FarageRiots#FarageRiots2