The best way to mess with these people is tell them you'll donate so have them send you a bill then send it back with no money and write on the bill to take you off their list. They get no money and it cost them postage.
same [***], different day. just because they have a name with "police" in it doesn't give them the right to bother people, yet they think it does. just another cold calling scam for money, what else?
Called 5:54pm 8/5/08 - Claimed to be the Police Protection Fund for fallen officers in the Waukegan, IL area--why would a downstate number be calling for Waukegan (far northern IL)? Politely hung up when I said "We don't donate to anything over the phone."
We previously agreed to donate some money to this "charity" a while ago but when we received the literature in the mail and researched it on the Internet, we didn't mail in a donation. They called again today, and when I tried to pin the solicitor down on specifics (does the money go Illinois officers? what percent?), he was evasive. I told him I wasn't comfortable donating, and the man was very kind, thanked me for my time, and hung up.
I saw POL PROTCT FUND light up on the caller id at 6:48 p.m. tonight, January 22, 2009 and ignored it. These pains in the [***] have called before and I have reported it to donotcall.gov, but I get the idea that that is not helping. I have never spoken to anybody on the other end of the line when I see that number.