Stop for inspection: Police personnel checking authorisation letters permitting inter-district and interstate travel at a roadblock set up on the East Coast Expressway. Bernama
PETALING JAYA: A 65-year-old man was detained for posing as a police officer in a bid to secure an interstate travel permit.
The man had gone to the Petaling Jaya police station at about 9pm on Friday and claimed to be an Assistant Commissioner of Police with a Datuk title.
Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Mohamad Fakhrudin Abdul Hamid said the man even showed them a photo of him in a police uniform stored in his mobile phone.