Going shopping to be a ‘cop’


No longer exclusive: Some of the police accessories that are openly sold.

PETALING JAYA: The easy availability of police apparel and accessories to civilians became the talk of the town following the recent arrest of two bogus traffic policemen acting as outriders to a convoy.

I was assigned to go on a shopping spree to see exactly how easy it was to purchase items supposedly exclusive to the police force.

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