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officials
This page considers the impersonation of officials.
It covers -
It
supplements the discussion of forgery,
pretexting and surveillance
elsewhere on this site.
introduction
A preceding page of this guide highlighted
the traditional vigilance of states regarding impersonation
of officials (including police, health inspectors, census
staff and tax officers) and those who are endowed with
state authority.
In 2008 for example Sydney private eye Brett Sutcliffe,
who posed as a federal police agent and sent a 77-year-old
woman a menacing letter, was jailed for 12 months and
fined $5,000. Sutcliffe had pleaded guilty to impersonating
a Commonwealth public official (a member of the Australian
Federal Police) and using the postal service to menace
the woman. She had challenged him for parking in a disabled
parking zone near her home. He later responded by sending
her a letter, purportedly on an Australian Federal Police letterhead,
warning that she had "wrongly interfered" with
an AFP investigation.
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