Amazing Covid Tradie Cops! By Brian Simpson
Well how about this, our friendly neighbourhoods’ boys and girls in blue are out there dressed as tradies. Hey, better than dressing up in … well … you know…
“Plain clothes officers dressed as tradies have been pictured pulling over drivers allegedly flouting the law.
Images showed a man wearing an orange T-shirt standing at a car window with what looked like a gun in the western Sydney suburb of Jamisontown in New South Wales last Thursday.
The man appeared to have been driving a car with red and blue flashing lights on its rear windshield, as locals speculated he was an undercover police officer.
Photos of the encounter were shared to Facebook captioned 'Police dressed as tradies... You've been warned... Jamisontown NSW.'
The post has been shared thousands of times.
One person commented on the post and claimed to be a driver who was pulled over by the man, and said they were let off with a warning by a police officer.
Some people said they would feel nervous pulling over for someone in a trade-person's uniform.
'I would honestly never stop for anyone in this kind of appearance. You could be giving your personal information to anyone,' commented one.
'Did they have a badge? That is just purely low and dodgy.'
Another listed ways such a practice could be taken advantage of by criminals.
'If he collected their licence and walked back to his car to take a photo of the licence that's a way to do identify theft,' the person wrote.
'If he told the driver their car [isn't] registered ... This just encourages car theft with the car unattended.'
New South Wales police declined to comment.”
I can’t blame them for not responding.
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