When the man walked into the police station in Lund, he wore a bulletproof vest and a sweater with a police emblem, clothes he claimed to have received during a previous 15-year police career.
The crime, of falsely impersonating an authority figure, can for the normal degree give imprisonment for up to six months.
The man denies the crime and states that he wore a bulletproof vest because he had been living under threat and that he received fewer questions about the vest when he wore a sweater with the police emblem.
The narcotics case in which the man was suspected was later dropped.
