Overview
- Three Berlin officers—a Polizeioberkommissar, a Polizeikommissar and a Polizeimeister—and a 45-year-old man believed to have rented cars were arrested on suspicion of organized theft.
- Investigators say the suspects used forged documents to impersonate police and extract €500 from a driver in Pankow and at least €8,000 from another in Charlottenburg.
- Coordinated searches of residences in Spandau, Reinickendorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg uncovered evidence that propelled the investigation.
- Authorities confiscated mobile phones, financial records and counterfeit police papers now under forensic review.
- The suspects will face an investigative judge at Tiergarten district court while Berlin Police consider disciplinary measures against the officers.