Don't Bother Getting A Fake

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Mordac replied

29 October 2021, 09:27
Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

CPS does prosecutions.

Only very occasionally though...
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SueEllen replied

29 October 2021, 09:01
Originally posted by vetran View Post

Well one hopes the Police are now prosecuting both the sellers and the buyers.

CPS does prosecutions.
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d000hg replied

29 October 2021, 08:47
Originally posted by vetran View Post

Well one hopes the Police are now prosecuting both the sellers and the buyers.

I'm going to sort it later today. But I'm waiting for something in the post first.
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vetran replied

29 October 2021, 08:43
Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

People have apparently been buying fake Met police badges on Etsy. (I'm sure that isn't the shop of anyone we know.)

But with the news in the last week including today they should just join the Met Police anyway....

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/27/fake-...4-99-15495948/

A shop selling fake Metropolitan Police badges and lanyards has been taken down from Etsy.

Shoppers could have purchased official-looking ID cardholders and badges for the Met Police and other forces from around the country until recently.

Metro.co.uk contacted the police, as well as the seller and the platform, asking how the items were available for sale.

None of them responded but the shop on the site has now disappeared.

Before it was taken down the business had made more than 500 sales and received a number of reviews in the last seven days.

From as little as £4.99 people could purchase an official-looking ‘printed Metropolitan Police lanyard.’

For £34.99 a lanyard and badge holder could be bought. Pin badges described as ‘ideal for serving or retired Met Police officers and staff’ were also available for less than £4.

While some of the items came with warnings saying sales were restricted to ‘serving or retired Met Police officers’ who could prove their credentials with a collar number, others did not.

Well one hopes the Police are now prosecuting both the sellers and the buyers.
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SueEllen started a topic Don't Bother Getting A Fake

29 October 2021, 08:37
Don't Bother Getting A Fake

People have apparently been buying fake Met police badges on Etsy. (I'm sure that isn't the shop of anyone we know.)

But with the news in the last week including today they should just join the Met Police anyway....

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/27/fake-...4-99-15495948/

A shop selling fake Metropolitan Police badges and lanyards has been taken down from Etsy.

Shoppers could have purchased official-looking ID cardholders and badges for the Met Police and other forces from around the country until recently.

Metro.co.uk contacted the police, as well as the seller and the platform, asking how the items were available for sale.

None of them responded but the shop on the site has now disappeared.

Before it was taken down the business had made more than 500 sales and received a number of reviews in the last seven days.

From as little as £4.99 people could purchase an official-looking ‘printed Metropolitan Police lanyard.’

For £34.99 a lanyard and badge holder could be bought. Pin badges described as ‘ideal for serving or retired Met Police officers and staff’ were also available for less than £4.

While some of the items came with warnings saying sales were restricted to ‘serving or retired Met Police officers’ who could prove their credentials with a collar number, others did not.
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