“Ask the person which police station he is attached to and what his rank is. An assistant sub-inspector wears a single star, while a sub-inspector wears two, and an inspector three. S D Sharanappa, DCP, Bengaluru East, says, “If a uniform doesn’t have stars pinned on the shoulders but just a band saying Karnataka State Police on the left sleeve, you should know it is not genuine.”The uniform varies according to the rank. Police costumes are easily available, and can be bought by anyone. But otherwise, law enforcement officers must wear their uniforms,” he explains. “There are times when policemen go undercover and don’t wear uniforms. This is better than basing your judgement on the uniform. When in doubt, insist on seeing the ID card, says Dharmendra Kumar Meena, DCP, Bengaluru North. These incidents beg the question, ‘How can one tell a fake policeman from a real one?’ Metrolife dialled senior policemen in the city. The ‘policeman,’ wearing a khaki uniform, claimed he was a sub-inspector at the Parappana Agrahara police station.
The victim had met the conman at a petrol bunk. In a third case, a young man lost Rs 80,000 to a fake police officer, who promised to sell him a seized car for cheap. Two men claiming to be officers from the Central Crime Branch asked a man riding a bike to hand over his phone, and made away with it. Bengaluru police have arrested one of the three impostors.Īnother incident took place under the Hennur flyover towards the end of September. The incident took place at a hotel in Veerannapalya, near Nagavara, on October 8. A 50-year-old man from Bengaluru lost Rs 5 lakh to three people who posed as policemen and accused him of drug peddling.
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