If you have never represented yourself as a peace officer, even in jest, to anyone other than your two friends, both of whom know perfectly well that you are not, then you haven't impersonated anyone.
If someone overheard you recording the message, or called into your phone and heard it, you haven't done anything wrong.
If you represented to someone not "in" on the joke that you were a police officer in person or directly over the phone, then the laws in some places would define that as impersonation. Others places might say that impersonation only takes place when you identify yourself as an officer, and demand some compliance that an officer could demand of someone, like putting disco lights on your dash and pulling people over and accosting them with some kind of uniform and badge as an extreme example.
But an answering machine message???? I answer my phones, "Main gate, St. Peter speaking," or, "St. Aloysius Home for Unwed Mothers, how may I direct your call?"
If the guy who heard the message and is stirring up the trouble knew that you are not an officer, then no harm was done.
Get a lawyer. Depending on the circumstances, this could all go away very quickly, or not.
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