Belinda Feek, Open Justice multimedia journalist

In what varied between harmless, bizarre and vulgar, a man with a penchant for impersonating police used his facade to reel in unsuspecting teen girls.

Charlie Terry Simonsen-Kemp’s apparent obsession with being a police officer mostly centred on telling people he was a “Detective” or “Detective Inspector”.

However, the 20-year-old Waikato man‘s behaviour spiralled after he sent a 15-year-old sexually explicit videos and a photo in which he was holding his fake police identification in his mouth.

On one occasion, he managed to get a job as a traffic management officer through a recruitment agency, after stating he was a detective but needed a second job.

He later used his grandfather’s driver’s licence to get a Class 2 classification to operate machinery, claimed to work for Hamilton City Council after being caught shooting possums, and was an “emergency responder” with NZ Transport Agency (NZTA).

Simonsen-Kemp appeared via audiovisual link in the…