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Bogus Police Car Checks in Spain
I just want to share my wife's recent experience, which should act as a cautionary tale to all motorists. On Friday 13th June 2008, my wife was on her way to Benijofar for a medical appointment. She left Montebello at about 10am, and took the Benijofar exit off the AP-7 Motorway junction 745. No sooner had she joined that road, she saw a man wearing what appeared to be a local police uniform, dark blue and yellow shirt, flagging her down. Another car(red) was parked behind a silver grey car. The "policeman" asked for documents, and not sure where in the car I had put them she called me to say what had happened. Because she had no documents to hand, he said he would have to take the car to the police station. Anyway, she got out of the car to give the man the documents, and was told in no unceratin terms by the Blonde Police woman, to "get back in the car". they asked for her driving licence, which she had inadvertantly left at home and her NIE. At this point they asked to have her purse, which contained only a few coins and her credit/debit cards. She showed her sip card to point out the NIE number, but they said it was no good. She called me and I arranged to get a lift over to her, from a kind neighbour. The police asked her how long I would be . She replied "5 minutes", at this they got very agitated and got in the silver/grey unmarked car and did a "u" turn back to the roundabout. A couple of hours later, after her late running medical appointment, it occurred to her that maybe they were not real police, as she had never in our 9 months in Spain, seen unmarked cars. On return home I called our local councillor for European Residents, who thought this sounded very dodgy indeed. so she contacted the police, who were of the same opinion. 10 minutes later 2 local and 2 Guardia arrived at the house and took details. When faced with this alien situation, you do not think rationally, so the obvious things like taking a registration number and asking for ID, go out of the window. Things to remeber in Spain are 1 Traffic police only want to see motoring documents, not your wallet 2 Police in unmarked cars have a flashing sign in the rear window 3 they do not impound the car unless you are drunk, in an accident and never for forgetting your driving licence. So anyone driving in Spain, around the Costa Blanca, should be aware that nothing is as it seems at times. Genuine Police will happily show you their ID.
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