American Police Force invades Montana

[JPR]

Driving around in vehicles marked " police department". Isn't that the crime of "impersonating a police officer?"

[Taylor13]

There was already a thread on this. The owner of "American Police Force" is a huge scam artist.

[kcso]

WTF?

Mystery Mont. 'police force' has town on edge

HARDIN, Mont. — When two brand new, shiny black Mercedes SUVs bearing a "Hardin Police Department" logo drove through the main thoroughfare of Hardin, Mont., last week, people took notice.

“How many police forces have Mercedes?” said Charlene Warren, a local business owner who has lived in Hardin for more than half a century. “That threw up a red flag.” And speaking of flags, it did not go unnoticed that the emblem on the sides of the SUVs bore a strong resemblance to the Serbian national flag.

Furthermore, those "police department" cars were rolling through Hardin, a small southeastern Montana town of 3,600 that just happens not to have a police department.

The luxury vehicles that rolled through town belonged to the American Police Force (APF), a California-based security firm that is drafting a contract that will give it control over a $27 million medium-security prison that was built in Hardin more than two years ago, but has never held any prisoners.

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