This is gold, 18 year old kid somehow gets his hand on a uniform and shows up to work one day, no one even bothers to verify his story
Social engineering on show

Source

A major investigation is underway into a security breach in which a man posed as a police officer at the Perth Watch House for more than a month.

The man has been arrested and charged but police are still investigating whether he managed to access any sensitive information.

It goes on to say that they've arrested him and searched his house, found some more uniforms etc
Someones wiping egg off their face right about now

... I suppose if the organisation is big enough and you avoid anyone connected with rostering this would be quite easy.

There was a story recently from Silicon Valley that a contracted programmer had his project scrapped, so he slept in the building for X amount of time working on it lol

I'm thinking there is a pretty good chance he has mental problems to have done it in the first place
if not he must have one helluva poker face

presumably he got access to computer systems.. how? do they keep PC's unlocked or did he simply ask other officers to log on for him..

seems kinda strange that someone can show up for work for a month with out being able to log in or deal with prisoners or go on patrol, etc...

that does seem like poor security... especially that it went on for a month. i don't doubt someone could do the same at a lot of big companies but you'd like to think the police would be a bit tighter on their security. even in telecom in the 80s i had to have photo id that was colour coded for the sections i was allowed into. some security guards could be lax but you'd never get away with it for more than a day.

suddenly, nukes you from orbit lol

did they give him a gun?

The man had a full police utility belt, complete with handcuffs, police issue baton and holster.

It says nothing about a gun YA GRONK

Kids got nothing on Frank Abagnale.

Lot of Serial Killers pretend to be Police Officers.

its a 'control' fantasy.

crazymorton I read about that last week, guy is a complete wanker.

People are all saying "ohh they should have given him whatever he needed to get his project off the ground", bahhh! I think he should be tossed out into the gutter. There is working hard for what you want, then there is stealing and squatting which is what he did.

My question is though, what did the 18 year old do all day? You would think he would get pretty bored after a few days without having any actual work to do.