Article 279 Whoever impersonates a functionary of a state organ to swindle and swindle shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
Whoever impersonates the people's police to swindle and cheat shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
The provisions on impersonating the people's police to swindle and swindle shall be severely punished. "Be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph", that is, pretending to be a people's policeman. If the circumstances are general, he will be given a heavier punishment within the sentencing range of fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights; If the circumstances are serious, a heavier punishment shall be given within the sentencing range of fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. It is stipulated that whoever impersonates the people's police to swindle and swindle shall be given a heavier punishment, mainly considering that the people's police shoulder the responsibility of safeguarding national security, maintaining social order and protecting citizens' personal and property safety, which is particularly closely related to social order and people's life order and needs special protection for the image and prestige of the people's police.