An autistic lad who loves the police wears a cop uniform to help control traffic on his street.<br /><br />Finley Bollen, six, dresses in an officer's hat and outfit everyday - keeping his town and its people safe on the roads. <br /><br />He has autism, ADHD and sensory processing disorder - but his mum Emma says being a copper has 'transformed' him and his behaviours for the better. <br /><br />Finley, of Clevedon, Somerset, is well known in his home town and gets saluted as he does his duties.<br /><br />Emma said: "As a mother who is so proud of her son who struggles with life to have found his thing it is amazing - and he is keeping Clevedon safe!<br /><br />"The cars slow down for him - he gets beeped, salutes and waves wherever he goes, everyone loves him!<br /><br />"Wherever he goes wants to be the guy who looks after the safety of everything - keeping an eye on the road, he loves it. <br /><br />"He can be very challenging but oh my gosh being a policeman has transformed him."<br /><br />The young boy's passion for policing started about a year ago, when he found a deep interest in blockages, road signs, road safety and police duties.<br /><br />But last month he decided to turn his hobby into a reality - as he patrols not only on the road he lives on, but also the local train station and anywhere he attends which needs an extra touch of safety.<br /><br />Finley likes his doughnuts on the job - and wears his cop outfit everyday to school.<br /><br />But on the rare occasion he is not wearing his cop outfit - he will wear his school jumper with a badge that Emma says "still makes him look like a cop!"<br /><br />Though Emma admits his police hat "is always on - whenever we go".<br /><br />The mum-of-two who lives in Clevedon said: "The police thing has been one of his obsessional things which he just absolutely loves.<br /><br />"When Finley knows what he wants and likes it, he will take it very serious - he's so quirky and funny and just amazing." <br /><br />"He wears his UK or US cop outfit and keeps everyone in order wherever he goes.<br /><br />"Even when we were in Turkey on holiday last month he decided to help keep the peace at the pool.<br /><br />"Even when we go to hospital appointments - which he used to absolutely hate - when he wears his cop outfit they are so successful, and they haven't been like that since he was one.<br /><br />"Being a police officer has dominated him into a different kind of being and it is working is so many different ways!<br /><br />"He even started directing the traffic at the ski centre a couple of weeks ago.<br /><br />"It's so funny because everyone goes into character around him.<br /><br />"If you talk to him like a cop you are sorted!"<br /><br />Emma admits she is not allowed to sit near Finley when he is completing his control checks, she explained: "I love it, I go and sit with him but he doesn't like me to be there because he doesn't want anyone to think he's not official.<br /><br />"But as a mother I can't let my six-year-old sit on the road and direct traffic - so I am always standing by!<br /><br />"I know have a fold-away chair so I can sit on the other side of the road to keep an eye."
