ATHENS (AFP) - Greek police have arrested a 49-year-old aluminium fitter for impersonating a police chief while wooing his lover, the semi-state Athens News Agency (ANA) reported on Monday.
The man regularly visited his girlfriend's home in the western Athens district of Ilion wearing the uniform to impress her.
But the woman's parents eventually became suspicious and alerted the local police station, who found no trace of his purported major-general on file.
Cases of impostors using police uniforms arise every few months in Greece.
Over the weekend, another man was arrested in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri after impersonating an officer to obtain loans from acquaintances, ANA said.
Only a select number of tailors are officially licensed to sell police uniforms in Greece but the system is far from fool-proof, a police source said.
"One could even make a uniform from scratch, though the act is punishable as a misdemeanour," the source said.
Misdemeanour crimes carry a maximum five-year sentence in Greece.
Posted by: kttref
The cops don't do anything over there anyway....When I was over there one of our group went missing for 2 days...they didn't care...(turned out she was with a Navy guy at his place...still - we had no idea).
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