It is understood that the retailer is also in the process of removing the other types of police warrant card holders being sold on the platform.Īmazon said it had “very strict guidelines” about what third-party retailers, like the one selling the product purchased by MyLondon, were allowed to sell. This police badge can be bought online for around £20 - We saw whether people found it believableīetween MyLondon purchasing the police warrant card and publishing this article Amazon removed the listing on its site. They said that it should be taken down and made illegal. However, there was agreement from everyone MyLondon that it was “disturbing” that such products were for sale online. Others found the badge less convincing, one man laughed and said it looked like “something out of a Christmas cracker” while others immediately spotted it was a fake. “If it was someone random I probably wouldn’t question them on it just in case,” a young woman said. One of them added that in the area of West London they lived a man had allegedly been robbing petrol stations dressed as a police officer and it concerned her that others could carry out similar crimes.Įven those who could see that the card was a fake said that if they were approached by someone with confidence they may still be taken in by it.
Two older women who MyLondon spoke to said that they would believe the card if shown it because “they knew no better". “I’d stand and hear what you had to say and work out whether I need to be scared,” another added. “I would think you were a police officer,” another woman said when asked how she’d react to someone showing her the badge. She was far from the only person who said that they found it believable. It was a powerful demonstration of just how much power the small metal emblem held.
Although we’d explained that we were journalists she was still confused by the badge.
The eyes of the first woman we showed the card to widened when she saw it. How can you avoid falling prey to fake police officers?
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