A paramedic has been accused of posing as a police officer and pulling over cars in his private motor. The Scottish Ambulance Service worker was spotted by police pulling over a vehicle on the A90 near Aberdeen.
It is believed the medic had turned on flashing blue lights fitted to his car. He was spotted using them to flag down a driver and give them a telling off, which is illegal.
Police confirmed a man, who we are not naming for legal reasons, had been charged over the incident and will be reported to the Procurator Fiscal.
An ambulance service insider said: “The paramedic works for the Special Operations Response Team, which deals with things like chemical incidents, but he did not have an exemption to have blue lights fitted to his car.
“He had no authority to pull over cars and it makes you wonder why he did it. You hear a lot of horror stories about people pretending to be police and pulling people over. We have heard that police saw him heading up the road with the blue lights on.
“As a cop, when you don’t recognise a car you assume it must be the gaffer but when they checked the car out it wasn’t someone they knew. Then they saw him coming back down the road again and saw him pulling over a private car.
“We have no way of knowing if this was the first time he had done it but it doesn’t appear to have been a spur of the moment thing. After traffic police pulled him over, he was asked for his name and he told them he was a paramedic. The police called the SAS and reported what happened to them. He is still working.”
The insider claimed there is a culture of bullying and cover-ups in the service.
Recently the Daily Record told how Jamie McNamee, Unite’s Scottish ambulance convener, faced false allegations at work after speaking out about problems in the SAS. Disciplinary action was later dropped.
On the fake police incident, an SAS spokesman stated: “We do not comment on individual cases, however, all our employees are managed in line with SAS values and workforce policies.”
Police Scotland confirmed a 30-year-old man had been charged with the incident and a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.
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