 Seeking assistance to the public in relation to a series of intercepts that believe to be illegitimate, regarding two males in a white Commodore pulling over motorists, female motorists in the Brisbane area. The incidents so far reported have occurred on the Monday night, late Monday night around midnight, leading into early Tuesday morning. The motorists have been pulled over by the white Commodore that has a red and blue flashing light, interior red and blue flashing light. And the, according to reception, the males have approached the Uigle pretending to be police or acting like police. They've approached the drivers, asked for their driver's licenses. On three occasions they've actually taken possession of the driver's license and they've retained it for some short time. The notice of them are giving back their license and have traveled on. There's no assaults being taken place. There's been no attempt to make contact, physical contact with motorists. So in that regard there's not a great cause for alarm. However, obviously there's personal particulars on your driver's license and there is some concern about the security of that personal information. So police are seeking assistance from anyone that knows anything about these two males to contact police. Three crime stoppers on 1-800-333-0 and advisers of what information they have. So far we have four complaints, two of which are in the Cleveland Thornlands area, one which was at the Wollongabba area and another one at Aspley. And the two males involved are a male and he's described as being in his 20s with unshaven facial hair, short light brown hair. He's described as being Caucasian with a slight potbelly. His assistant is another Caucasian male about 24 years of age. He's got dark curly, well dark blonde curly hair. He's about six foot high and has a more slim toned physique and the vehicle is a white Commodore. As I mentioned with mags, silver and gold, possibly with a pinstripe down the side, very dark tinted windows and obviously it has a red and blue flashing interior light and basically wanted people to know that if they do feel concerned that the person that's trying to intercept them, the unmarked vehicle trying to intercept them, is somehow not legitimate. It's well within their rights to continue to a place of safety. I would suggest that you let the the pursuing vehicle know that you have acknowledged their existence by perhaps putting a indicator on. You can travel to a place that's more well lit, maybe more well populated and and pull over and then if the person, if you're approached and you're still not sure whether it's police officer or not, i.e. they're not wearing uniform or haven't showed their identification, well within your rights to keep your doors locked, keep the windows up and wait until you see some official identification before you actually engage the the said police officer or whoever it is. There's nothing wrong with that. Police are aware that's a natural response and if you require you believe you need to see the identification, there's nothing wrong with you asking because every officer will carry a police identification such as this one here. That's an identification like that. They come in a leather wallet like that and obviously it's all it's got a photographic ID there and the metallic badge. If you ask for that it should be presented if you're not presented with an identification and obviously I'd suggest you call the police immediately and don't cooperate and that i believe is basically the what sort of clothes were these two blokes wearing and were they trying to look like plain clothes or yeah they certainly look trying to look like police officers. They went in even more anything look like a uniform. It was casual clothing. Police do do casual clothing patrols at times and I would suggest that these work guys are wearing basic as a gauge just jeans and shirts. They weren't wearing anything to look like a police officer in that regard. The lights is not a great specific description of the lights. They're just described as red and blue flashing lights. I mean there's probably something you can make at home. I'm not too entirely sure but yeah what's that sorry? Were they sitting on the car? They've been described as coming from the front dash area of the car. Do you believe that women were actually targeted or was it bad? There's no way of knowing what their motivations are. It just so happens that the foreign exceptions that we know of are full reported anyway are females. There may be males that have been intercepted just haven't reported it so we don't know at this stage. Could they just be having a bit of a laugh thinking this is funny? That is a possibility but at the end of the day if that's what it is it's still concerning to the people involved enough for them to call the police and alert us to it. So what might be funny to someone else is obviously concerning to others and that's probably another message that needs to be portrayed as well. It's a warring trend isn't it? I mean it's twice in a week virtually that we've had criminal personnel and police. Yeah like I said it could be it could be a luck. At the moment I don't see a great need for alarm. They haven't done anything like haven't tried to do anything over it anyway in relation to at this stage. But we certainly don't want it to continue. Is there anything to indicate? I don't have a good indication of that. Actually walk up and identify themselves if they are an officer such and such or if there's anything to say? They actually know more the manner in which they they behaved and the questions they asked rather than actually saying I'm a police officer they behaved like a traditional traffic stop or a driver's license check. The style of car that they drive should that be given away as well to people out there as they are pulled over by this car? It's not sounding like it's a very policy looking car. The you're on definitely on something there police obviously use very new cars. Most of our cars are you know less than a couple of years old and by all reports this car is outside that range so yes that would be an indicator that if you're getting pulled over by a vehicle that looks a bit too old to be a police car you know that's probably a good indicator you might want to get to a place of safety or even at that point you might want to try calling your local police if it gets to the point that you interfere with your life or you know it's a great fear if you're safe that you're an officer triple O is another option too. But I strongly recommend for people that you know travel alone in their vehicles to have their local police station programmed to their phone on a on a speed dial perhaps and if you need to when it's just there you don't have to think about what is the number you can just call it and you know just for a piece of mind. The real police is job harder you don't want every person they pull over they don't want to keep identifying themselves or it just basically slows it up for you. Yeah people that have been in plain clothes and working in plain clothes permanently such as myself you are used to showing your identification it's the first thing you do. We all plain clothes officers carry their ID and they neither have to identify themselves. So not so much if someone I've actually had a situation where a young lady tried to intercept her in an industrial area that we're patrolling for break-in and as she drove blocks before she pulled over and I was a bit puzzled at the time and then when she finally pulled over at the satellites at the main road and she kept the window up and she explained to me that she just wasn't sure so I mean I was in jeans in the t-shirt we're doing in a surveillance patrol and it's exactly the scenario we're talking about here and I don't have a problem with it at all. I understood as soon as she said I just wasn't sure whether you're really police and I went oh that's fair enough. What's the penalty for impersonating police officer? I probably have talked to a prosecutor about that one there's not have been a lot of cases but I don't know I'll talk to him. In relation to the vehicle do you know anything more specific than older style which is the description we've had? I wouldn't want to restrict it to older style. It all depends on your knowledge of cars whether you can give a gauge on a car. The models haven't changed dramatically but it's been described as five to eight years whereas other ones said it's not very old. So yeah unless you know your cars how can you really marry the range? It's a white Commodore is what we're running with and it's got mag wheels intended It's a white Commodore definitely with very dark tint of windows and obviously males matching the description of the conflicts we're giving out. We've got two conflicts now the second one will be available after this briefing. With the cars I'm just obviously trying to name a picture that we can put one up tonight so I know it's a model around two out of five to two or something like that. Yeah look I'd really wouldn't want to marry that range because we do have you know we now have no consistency in description of the age of the car so you know if we put up a picture of one car well then you rule out people think oh that's not our mate because he doesn't drive one of those cars his car's older. Yeah that's right. How these how these complaints came to light was is there anything that links links all four where they all said look I noticed the car that didn't look like it was a police car that's why I called it. Has there been anything specific that's been the dead people right? Well the timings they happen all within about two hour period of each other maybe three tops. The description of one of the males is consistent or one of the males the comfort that's being provided it's afternoon with the curly hair that's consistent over two intercepts and one of those intercepts two males were seen and that description of the second male is consistent with the comfort you've already got with the pop belly so and the car and just well you don't hear about these sort of stories every day so we believe they're the same. I guess what I meant was that for the I guess let's call them the victims has there been a sort of a dead giveaway what was there a dead giveaway each time for all all these people that have been pulled over did they realize hey this this doesn't that didn't look like a police car or something like that. There was a I'd say it's a casualness about it and perhaps what you suggested with the car I'm not too sure I'm not one of the victims but there was one occasion where they were asked for identification and failed or refused to provide it that obviously raised a question mark in that person too. Yeah look there's not too much we can particularly do about copycats other than suggest to them that this is serious and and anyone that hears of people bragging about doing something such as this or if they happen to see it on facebook or something like that well would strongly suggest that that information needs to be passed on to us and we need to point out to these people that it's concerning to the people involved and it does slightly make our job a little harder but as I said that we don't mind that but we certainly don't want to be investigating these sort of instances too often. I realized you said before that you can you don't know the specific penalty for doing something like this but they'll certainly be prosecuted one day. Oh absolutely absolutely so like they're just going to get a tuck-tuck this is this is more than just a lark is it? Oh no it's an offence under the criminal code to impersonate anybody and obviously the police officer's position of authority it'll be taken far more seriously than just a normal impersonation. Just with that personal information being obtained is there a fear there that this could lead to parole as well? There's no indication of that there's no cause to be alarmed about that but I mean you know people you know your information's on your driver's license they don't retain it for very long you know there's no indication that that is where they're going with this but you know that's always a concern your driver's license is a document that we have authority to ask you for but you generally want to give it to people that you want to give it to in your trust. Yeah I'm not entirely sure oh I've really got a good answer for that one. The women involved are they quite concerned about the fact that they've given their details to these two people? No the Vic the motorists I've spoken to haven't raised it as being a big problem I'd be concerned to them it's just a more of a public safety announcement I suppose or perhaps just a message to the people that are doing it that you know there are reasons why people might get alarmed about this and if it is just a like it's not very funny.