#NYPD looking for impersonator who crashed into NYC police stables

Police are looking for an odd character who walked into the NYPD’s mounted police stables Saturday night and announced himself as “Inspector Tates.”

Confronted inside the stables at W. 53rd Street and 11th Avenue, the fake inspector dashed outside again, police sources told The Post.

He jumped into a black Mercedes-Benz and struck a parked car as he raced away westbound on W. 53rd Street before turning north — the wrong way — onto 11th Avenue.

The bizarre incident happened just after 6:30 p.m. The suspect is described as 5’11” and about 190 pounds.

Additional reporting by Laura Italiano