Impersonating a Police Officer is a serious offense, but it should only be taken seriously when its seriously committed. Meet 46 y/o Steven Peers, an electrical engineer from Manchester, England (yup, that’s him below…) Back… Scroll down to read more!

Meet 46 y/o Steven Peers, an electrical engineer from Manchester, England (yup, that’s him below…)

Back in May, 2014 Steven was arrested for impersonating a police officer when he showed up at the Manchester City Center donning a pig mask, a Bobby (UK police) helmet and a hi-visibility jacket, doing his impression of “Officer 666” – a fictional character that he created to poke fun at cops in regard to an ongoing civil dispute between the police and environmental groups over fracking concerns.

Steven was shocked at his arrest as he had worn the toy hat and pig mask in front of several police stations and at various protest sites without incident as everyone, including other officers, simply laughed at the obvious parody.

In Florida, the crime of Impersonating a Police Officer (or, “Falsely Personating an Officer”) is found at F.S. 843.08 and requires proof that someone assumed or pretended to be an officer and that while doing do they acted as an officer.  Thus, in FL, merely dressing as a cop (wearing / donning police paraphernalia) is insufficient.  In order to convict the pretend cop must hold her/himself out to be, or commit some act in furtherance of suggesting to others, that s/he is a cop.
In this case Steven did not meet prong 1 (present as a cop – his pig mask, while laughable, or cursable, depending upon your perspective, in any event could not reasonably be taken seriously) much less prong 2 (acting as a cop).
Not withstanding his arrest Steven took it lightheartedly.  He knew the cops had no case, and he was proven correct when his case was tossed from court in July.  The results of the IA investigation into the arresting officer are presently unknown.
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