14-year old fools Chicago cops and goes on patrol

Run_to_da_hills · 27-01-2009 12:27PM #1

A 14 year-old boy who fooled Chicago police and spent five hours in a squad car alongside another police officer who was on traffic patrol has tried impersonating a cop before, local media said Monday.

Police acknowledged it was a serious security breach and said they are investigating how the boy managed to check out a radio and ticket book and how he managed to spend five hours on patrol while escaping suspicion.

They said the boy "looks older than 14" and was wearing a complete Chicago police uniform except for the badge and gun.

Could this happen in Ireland?

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/no-copon-as-boy-14-goes-on-patrol-with-citys-finest-1615645.html

metman · 27-01-2009 12:38PM

The 14 year old's colleagues began to get suspicious during a public order incident......

Eru · 27-01-2009 01:32PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A 14 year-old boy who fooled Chicago police and spent five hours in a squad car alongside another police officer who was on traffic patrol has tried impersonating a cop before, local media said Monday.

Police acknowledged it was a serious security breach and said they are investigating how the boy managed to check out a radio and ticket book and how he managed to spend five hours on patrol while escaping suspicion.

They said the boy "looks older than 14" and was wearing a complete Chicago police uniform except for the badge and gun.

Could this happen in Ireland?

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/no-copon-as-boy-14-goes-on-patrol-with-citys-finest-1615645.html

How the hell did no one notice this random schmuk walking in? How did he know where everything was or what to do, etc? Beggers belief.

It could happen to some degree, certainly someone could make up a uniform that would fool most people but I doubt you could get access to a station unless the lads on duty are being very lax. Of course I would expect serving Gardai to spot a fake, not like we need the Mets help or anything