We’ve all daydreamed at one time or one other about with the ability to flick on a set of police lights to immediately clear a path by a gnarly visitors jam, or possibly even to scare the bejeezus out of a driver who’s simply reduce us up. However one driver in Illinois didn’t cease at daydreaming and is in custody after driving round in a pair of modified autos that look reasonably an excessive amount of like actual cop automobiles.

The Millstadt Police Division teamed up with the Illinois Secretary of State Police to analyze experiences of a neighborhood driver cruising round city in a Ford Explorer and Chevrolet Impala, every painted black and geared up with sure options designed to make them resemble official police autos. The Explorer had a bullbar on the entrance, fundamental metal wheels, a loudspeaker, and an A-pillar-mounted highlight, whereas the Impala was additionally operating on steelies, had an A-pillar highlight, rear CB ariels, flashing lights on the prime of the windshield, and a ‘police interceptor’ badge on the trunk lid.

And whereas the motive force may need been capable of persuade police that a minimum of a few of these mods have been only a little bit of enjoyable and fully authorized, the license plate on every automobile bearing the textual content ‘pursuit car, police interceptor’ and ‘IP’ (for Illinois Police), plus a star with the damning wording ‘Illinois State Police’ goes to be tougher to wriggle out of.

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Photographs: Millstadt Police Division

The Millstadt PD’s Fb publish saying the person’s arrest solely says he’s ‘within the strategy of going through costs’ and stops in need of alleging he tried to go himself off as an officer by utilizing the lights and pulling members of the general public to the facet of the highway. However the police have requested anybody within the space to contact them in the event that they imagine he did cease them or did something to symbolize himself as an officer.

And if he did, he definitely wouldn’t be the primary. We’ve written a few completely different posts throughout the final yr or so about pretend cops who acquired nasty shocks when the drivers they pulled over turned out to be actual law enforcement officials. Final December a California teen was arrested for handing out pretend parking tickets in an try to rip-off drivers in Santa Cruz.