Is it illegal to impersonate a policeman and send a text message to threaten others in the name of a policeman?

It is illegal to pretend to be a policeman and send text messages to threaten others in the name of the policeman. According to the contents of relevant national laws and regulations, it can be known that in this case, the actor will be subject to relevant administrative detention and fined for less than five days or less than 500 yuan. If the perpetrator's behavior is serious, then he can be given some corresponding punishment on this basis.

Legal analysis

In daily social life, it is illegal for some people to pretend to be policemen, and the perpetrators should be punished. Otherwise, in this way, anyone may pretend to be a policeman to disturb social order, threaten and intimidate others, and do some harm to others' body and mind. The difference between the crime of seeking trouble by oneself and other crimes of gathering people to disturb lies in the difference of criminal motivation first. The crime of stirring up trouble is only to satisfy one's abnormal mental stimulation or other unhealthy psychological needs, such as bullying and playfulness; The criminal motive of gathering people to disturb social order or public places is to seek unreasonable demands from individuals, disturb the normal working order of organs, groups or units through gathering people to make trouble, or disturb the public places and traffic order, and put pressure on relevant units, organs, groups and even the government. Second, the different forms of crime. It is not necessary to gather people to make trouble, but there must be more than one person in the form of gathering people to disturb. Then there are objective differences. The objective aspect of the crime of stirring up trouble is to beat others at will, insult or intimidate others, or to destroy or occupy public and private property at will, make trouble in public places, and the circumstances are very bad, resulting in serious disorder in public places; The objective aspect of the crime of gathering people to disturb is that gathering people to attack state organs, enterprises, institutions and people's organizations, or to disturb the order of public places and public transportation is extremely serious.

legal ground

Article 42 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan for any of the following acts; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means; (2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others; (3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment; (4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others; (six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.