Officer Bob

STATEN ISLAND, NY:  A fake police-training school was busted this week.  An ex-cop and his partner ran the school and did pretty well with it if you believe the story.

A Staten Island man was busted Tuesday morning for allegedly running a fake federal law enforcement training school out of his house — and distributing some 3,000 fake badges to his students.

Police say 49-year-old Robert, or “Roberto,” Neves was charged in federal court with distribution of law enforcement federal-style badges and identification.

A co-conspirator, Ralph Rios, was reportedly also arrested in Miami.

Police say Neves is charged with running the “U.S. Recovery Bureau” school, which offered three-day courses in Passaic, Brooklyn and Washington Heights.

After the training, students were given phony police badges, adorned with a United States seal.

He allegedly distributed more than 3,000 badges to his students, who were charged $860 for the course. But the students were never given background checks.

Neves was a police officer in the mid-1990s, but was fired for filing false police reports,

Lemme see, dat’s around $2.5 million paid by thousands of guys who want to get out there and push people around wit’ no authority to do so.   Somethin’ don’t add up.

What I don’t believe is that none of those 3,000 came back to the “US Recovery Bureau” school to shake down their trainers a little bit.  I mean, c’mon - even a fake cop has got to figure out what’s up every now and then.