The joke was organised by students of the local university and road police to mark April Fool's Day. Local media had announced the day before that the first trainee from Africa will start work as a road policeman in Krasnoyarsk.
Samuel Brako, 33, from Ghana, a student of Krasnoyarsk University dressed as a road policeman, on a road in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, April 1, 2010.