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Posted by: maineprobation

Does your issue Sergeant badge have a number on the back? If it has a number, is it stamped or engraved, silver colored or copper colored? Strange question but I saw a MSP Sergeant badge recently and was wondering if it was real or one of the many fakes currently being sold on eBay and other places.

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Posted by: resqjyw0

*cough impersonator *cough

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Posted by: maineprobation

No, I'm afraid not, "Cougher." This badge is on a board displayed with several others at a municipal P.D. here in Maine. The officer who maintains the display claims it is a real MSP Sgt. badge and I say it is one of the reproductions sold on the Internet. That was my reason for asking. Why would someone impersonating an officer give a ******* darn about whether or not a badge had a number on the back??? By the way, in my years of law enforcement and then probation work, the only badges I ever saw used for impersonating an officer were dime store tin badges that can be bought in any novelty store.

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Posted by: Portable81

Well welcome to Massachusetts . . . home of the C.M.P.S.A.

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Posted by: Wolfman

Don't ask that sort of thing here - if you really want to know just stop byu your nearest barracks. I'm sure it isn't a secret and you'll get relaible information without the flaming.

Unless, of course, there's some reason you don't want to go to a barracks...

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Posted by: maineprobation

Well, pardon me. Looks like the question I posed has branded me as a nutcase, potential impersonator, or possible "person of interest." Yet, after reviewing some of the mundane minutia and contentious garbage posted here, it really doesn't seem like such an inappropriate or ire-raising question. I live 100 miles up the Maine Turnpike so I'm not too close to an MSP Barracks. Next trip to Mass. doing an extradition, I'll stop at GHQ in Framingham and ask one of the Sergeants there. Hopefully, I won't be arrested for asking, especially after I show my ID. Thanks for nothing.

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Posted by: Killjoy

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Well, pardon me. Looks like the question I posed has branded me as a nutcase, potential impersonator, or possible "person of interest." Yet, after reviewing some of the mundane minutia and contentious garbage posted here, it really doesn't seem like such an inappropriate or ire-raising question. I live 100 miles up the Maine Turnpike so I'm not too close to an MSP Barracks. Next trip to Mass. doing an extradition, I'll stop at GHQ in Framingham and ask one of the Sergeants there. Hopefully, I won't be arrested for asking, especially after I show my ID. Thanks for nothing.

You're welcome for nothing. I don't know if the internet is a new phenomenon or what in Maine, but with the large proportion of whack-jobs and posers who come here, claim to be law enforcement only to have their house of cards quickly collapse, you must forgive us for some skepticism. Skepticism is a built into a police officer's brain, I would no more believe you on this website then if you were to call me up at the barracks and claim to be FBI, without appropriate backing. Remember ANYONE can post on this site...and information can be sought by unsavory types looking to perpetrate being cops, need I point to the rape recently committed by a cop-poser?

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Posted by: MM1799

For god's sake, just pick a telephone up and call the barracks -- if they want provide sufficient data. I can't believe you are even LE for crying about the lack of information about official badges with all the nutcases that are out there.

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Posted by: Delta784

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Originally Posted by Killjoy Remember ANYONE can post on this site...and information can be sought by unsavory types looking to perpetrate being cops, need I point to the rape recently committed by a cop-poser?

I'm sure the first thing the victim did in that case was to ask if the fake cop's badge had a serial number on the back.

Geesh guys....lighten up!!

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Posted by: maineprobation

Yes, I agree to a point. Today, everyone is suspect. The Whole System is a series of Suspects. The victim/witness may be filing a false report so he/she is a suspect. The police officer may be prejudiced so he/she is suspect. The ADA may have his/her own agenda and thus be suspect. The Judge may have his/her ulterior motives and so be suspect. The jurors, picked from the general population of suspects, probably each have their own issues and so are suspect. The probation officer may do a lousy job so he/she is suspect. The prison guard may be bringing contraband into the institution so he/she is suspect. Actually, the only guy who really is NOT suspect is the Guy Who Did It. We KNOW what his motives are!

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