A P-plater was allegedly caught impersonating a foreign police officer by displaying fake Chinese police signs on a Mercedes in Sydney’s Inner West.<\/p>\n
Traffic officers spotted the unusual sign on the black sedan in Everton Road, Strathfield.<\/p>\n
Images show it said POILCE in white on the bonnet next to Chinese characters.\ufeff<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old man behind the wheel allegedly showed the officers ID and a disability pass.<\/p>\n
Ammunition was also found in the car.<\/p>\n
When the man’s house in Baulkham Hills was then searched, police allegedly found two guns.\ufeff<\/p>\n
He will face court for allegedly impersonating a foreign police officer and possessing firearms.<\/p>\n
His charges include use display emergency services organisation insignia, drive motor vehicle with unlawful police insignia, use false document to influence exercise of public duty, holder of Category A or B licence not have approved storage (two counts), provide information known to be false or misleading, possess unauthorised prohibited firearm, and not comply P2 licence condition not display P plates.<\/p>\n
He was granted conditional bail to appear at Burwood Local Court tomorrow.<\/p>\n
His firearms licence was suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A P-plater was allegedly caught impersonating a foreign police officer by displaying fake Chinese police signs on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-11423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}