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Bogus copper steals tachographs

31st August 2000
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A Staffordshire-based driver is warning others to be on their guard after a man claiming to be a police officer stopped him and seized his tachograph charts.

Last week Marc McFarlane, who drives for Stoke-on-Trentbased Raid Freight Services, was stopped near Junction 16 of the M74 in Scotland by a man in police uniform.

McFarlane says he became suspicious when the man ordered him to hand over all his tacho charts but refused to sign the new chart or to give him a receipt.

When he contacted Dumfries & Galloway Police an officer told him that the man's car was riot registered to the police nor recorded with the DYLA. He also said the "policeman's" number did not exist.

"I asked him for his warrant card and he couldn't produce one," says McFarlane. "I was bricking it I knew If I was stopped again without my tack] charts I'd be in serious trouble so I rang the police straight away." Dumfries & Galloway police say they are making inquiries into the matter but declined to comment further.

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