Man detained for possessing fake police uniform
A man in suburban Songjiang District was detained for seven days for possessing a fake police uniform which was found in a bag he accidentally left in a taxi, police said on Monday.
The taxi driver turned the bag in to police at Jiuting Police Station, where they spotted the fake blue-colored police uniform inside.
With clues from other objects in the bag, police managed to determine the bag owner’s identity.
The man, surnamed Jiang, was apprehended at a hotel in the district.
Jiang claimed that he bought the fake police uniform and a fake police ID card from the Internet because he is a fan of police equipment, police said.
Jiang confesses that he bought the fake police uniform and a fake police ID card from the Internet.
Police remind the public that it’s against the law to illegally produce, sell, possess and use police emblems, costumes, ID cards and weapons.
