The police in south Zealand and Lolland-Falster are warning citizens that a group have been posing as policemen in order to gain access to people’s houses.
On Sunday a young woman in Vordingborg was visited by two fake policemen who gained access to her house under the pretence they were looking for a person, but were instead casing out her house.
The woman became suspicious when she saw them drive off in a red Volkswagen Polo and called the police, who have confirmed the occurrence.
”When you pose as someone from the police, you get access to places you wouldn't normally,” Stefan Jensen, a spokesperson for the South Zealand and Lolland-Falster Police, told tv2.dk. “But the victim isn’t missing anything, so it’s difficult to say why they did it.”
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Always ask for ID
Jensen urged others who are visited by uniformed police to be aware and ask for identification.
“We have our badges, which includes a picture and are watermarked, so it’s not easily copied. So ask for identification and ask why they are knocking on your door,” Jensen said.
But Jensen’s advice comes just a month after a national poll showed that three out of ten people who have asked police officers for identification had been turned down
Earlier in the month a fake policeman succeeded in stealing a Mercedes C-class station car from a 57-year-old woman in Vedbæk just north of Copenhagen, and last year three Romanian thieves were caught in the city posing as policemen.
