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Berlin Police Arrest Three Officers for Stealing Cash in Fake Traffic Stops

Coordinated raids across Berlin yielded counterfeit police documents that helped prompt the arrests.

In Berlin sind drei Polizisten festgenommen worden, weil sie bei vorgetäuschten Verkehrskontrollen Autofahrern gezielt Bargeld abgenommen haben sollen. Gegen sie und einen weiteren Beschuldigten besteht der Verdacht des schweren Bandendiebstahls.
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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.