OK I don't know about Belleville but around here if you are wearing a shirt that says you are part of LE and your not you are givin and extremely hard time My small town the almost the entire police department lives in town or the immediate area outside of town then a majority of us are reserve officers. I do not know if it is truly illegal but it is frowned upon for the generic rent-a-cop to look like our police force. My town has actually stopped using a certain company because they wore badges that looked like our officers and there jackets said enforcement on them. Now do I neccesarily agree with all of this no but I do agree with most of it. Rent-a-cops and non LEO's should not be allowed to represent themselves as LEO's, just like I believe that non EMS people should not be allowed to represent themselves as EMS providers....geee that is a thought huh....
4c you beat me to the bunch....