Woman arrested in Durban for impersonating police, defrauding senior citizens
An off-duty police officer arrested a woman posing as a police official, suspected of defrauding senior citizens, after spotting her in Durban.
A woman impersonating a police officer was arrested in Durban yesterday, after being spotted by an off-duty officer from the Berea Crime Prevention Unit.
According to Berea police spokesperson, Captain Poobalan Naidoo, Constable Adiel Sheik was driving along Stephen Dlamini Road in Essenwood when he noticed the suspect. The woman was reportedly wanted for fraud and impersonating a police official.
Sheik became suspicious when he saw the suspect wearing a SAPS field dress cap and a SAPS golfer shirt. He contacted the Crime Prevention Unit for backup before approaching the woman.
“He produced his appointment card to show the suspect that he was a police official and asked her to do the same as she was dressed as one.
“She could not follow through with the request. He then asked her to state her personal number which she could not. When backup arrived, she admitted that she was not a police official and was pretending to be one to defraud senior citizens of their money,” said Naidoo.
The suspect was arrested and transported to the Berea Police Station. An investigation is underway.
Items recovered were a SAPS golfer shirt, a SAPS field dress cap, a blank docket cover, an exhibit bag, a blank affidavit with a SAPS CSC date stamped on it, and a cellphone.
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