What police department do you work for today?

The "system" in place for controlling how LEOs (law enforcement officers)
get their credentials is laughable at best.

Typically an LEO carries two pieces of identification, which they call "creds":

• A Badge
• An ID card

These are not nearly difficult enough to obtain.

There are no federal laws dictating how identities should be verified when someone orders new or replacement credentials. There also aren't any standards for what police credentials should look like.  Some of them look more professional than others. Some look similar to drivers' licenses, some look more like a cheap high school ID card. Most of them have much worse security mechanisms than traditional state IDs.

As a matter of free market, there are a limited number of companies which supply credentials to the enormous number of LEOs and LE agencies. Most of them simply require a fax on "department letterhead" or a similarly easy-to-defeat mechanism.

As long as it's this easy to order police creds online, there's a huge risk. Oh, don't forget your badge. And you'll probably want to be wearing the right clothes.