[Southerngirlly]

This cop that lives in my neighborhood, who is really a cop stopped me and threatened me to give me a citation for all the stop signs that I've ran in my neighborhood if I don't stop running them, but the thing is, he was not in uniform when he stopped me, could this be something of false impersonation?

[cdad]

No, from your description this person is actually a police officer. When your on the force your actually on it 24/7. You may get to punch in and out for the purpose of the shift. (on/off duty) but that has nothing to do with police powers.

[joypulv]

Agree with califdad! And you were lucky. He probably didn't have his ticket pad with him and the time to fill it out.

[Fr_Chuck]

He can give you a ticket in his underwear if the offense is serious enough. A police officer is a police officer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Only his department may have rules about writing tickets if not on duty. But he can detain you, call a officer on duty, and have them write a ticket.

Also while not common, a officer who witnesses a traffic violation can days latter write a ticket for it.


This is not impersonation, since he is a police officer.

[odinn7]

Can I just point out the obvious here... you shouldn't be running stop signs anyway. You should consider yourself lucky that he only warned you.