An IT consultant who told two women he had just flagged down he was a police officer was fined £400 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
Steven Evans, from Dunfermline, was upset with the way they were driving and drove up behind them, flashing his lights.
He then asked the driver if she had passed her test and, when she asked if he was a policeman, said, “Yes.”
Evans (27), of Yetholm Park, pled guilty to committing a breach of the peace in Queensferry Road in Rosyth on October 17.
Depute fiscal Louise Ward told Sheriff Craig McSherry that the incident happened some time after 10pm.
A woman was driving with a friend in Queensferry Road when they noticed a BMW behind them the driver was flashing the vehicle’s lights, so they pulled over.
The accused got out and asked her, “Do you have a driving licence?”
She replied, “Are you a policeman?” Evans said, “Yes.”SuspiciousThe complainer became suspicious and asked to see some form of identification, at which point the accused got back into the BMW and drove off.
He was traced and told the police he had come across a car without any lights.
Evans was asked if he had claimed to be a police officer and admitted, “Stupidly, yes. It was a moment of madness, sorry.”
Solicitor Zander Flett said that his client was driving his father’s car when the complainer pulled out in front of him from Primrose Lane in Rosyth. Evans claimed that she then cut him up at two successive roundabouts before he flagged her down in Queensferry Road.
Mr Flett added, “He asked whether she had passed her driving test.
“He wasn’t pretending to be anything he was not, he was simply annoyed at the manner of her driving.”