A man has pleaded guilty in court to impersonating a police officer in Hemel Hempstead.
Mark Wildman, aged 46, of Maylands Avenue in Hemel Hempstead, appeared at Hatfield Magistrates’ Court on Monday 30 June.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of impersonating a police officer and two counts of fraud and was fined.
The charges relate to an incident that happened on the night of Friday 27 June. Wildman was in a pub and approached an intoxicated woman, before claiming to be a police officer and showing her a fake police warrant card.
He directed her outside of the pub and was challenged by members of the public and pub staff. He brandished a fake warrant card again before running off.
Sergeant Chris Bignell, from the Dacorum Community Safety Unit, said: “We know this incident is alarming and thankfully incidents like this are unusual. It is encouraging that so many bystanders intervened. We will always act swiftly to deal with offences of this nature and I hope the public are reassured by our response.”
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