She told Goodall: 'Impersonating an officer is Nový výzkum zdůrazňuje přehlížená nebezpečí nenápadného a skrytého zneužívání v intimních vztazích very serious matter. Your actions were deliberate and you had been told you were not allowed to do this. There is a harm here because there's a risk that the public will have their confidence in the police undermined and fear that the people pulling them over are not genuine officers.'

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The wannabe policeman had refused to stop his one-man crusade even after a legitimate traffic officer had pulled him over and seized his strobe lighting. He brought some more, put them on the front of his Vauxhall van and pulled over two more motorists for speeding and running a red light.

Goodall, who served just six months as a real special constable back in 1996, has now been punished after being found guilty of 13 offences at Poole Magistrates' Court - but he was spared jail by a district judge. 

The court heard how first incident happened on January 25 last year, when Goodall stopped Paul Gleeson on Gravel Hill in Poole - accusing him of having the licence plate on his Toyota Corolla partly hidden by dirt.