Police have a new toy

[dxg]

erdnase said:

ViperScot said:

Is it not illegal to take deliberately take pics of the poline now, or is that just in England? I'm not saying folk shouldn't take pics (I think we need to keep an eye on the polis as much as possible), I'm just wondering...

It's a frame from a video camera stuck to the windscreen. I'd rather get done for unavoidably taking an image of the police than for the driving wihtout due care charge that would come after I'd stacked it into the central reservation by fidding with a running camera just because I saw a police car coming the other way.

Well, actually, I'd rather not get done at all. The law about not being allowed to photograph the police is "to aid terrorism." I don't see how this image could be construed as doing that, so I should be okay. But in the UK, should I really have to worry about such things or did the "terrorists" actually win? I fear that they did.

(And before someone says it, it looked like an A4, but the closing speeds were large).

(And also before someone says it, there was a car in lane 1).

Edited by dxg on Sunday 1st March 01:05

[erdnase]

dxg said:

(And also before someone says it, there was a car in lane 1).

lol

[ViperScot]

But is it the case in Scotland that it's illegal to take pics of the police now? Cos' my GF is thinking about joining and I'd hate not to be able to take anymore bedroom shots...

[ARphotography]

ViperScot said:

But is it the case in Scotland that it's illegal to take pics of the police now? Cos' my GF is thinking about joining and I'd hate not to be able to take anymore bedroom shots...

i thought it was only "in a public place" where you can't take photos of the police.

so unless your bedrooms public then, snap away my good man, snap away!!

[markcsl]

Post the bedroom pix we all want to see

[iani]

a77 and m8 patrol -

05 plate silver 5 series
05 or 56 plate black 5 series
54 scoda superb

05/55/06/56 red and navy focus' but you cant miss the 2 sets of ariels

and if you missed the evo x you must be mental as its marked

[iani]

whats the script wi the photo taking of coppers then??

is it allowed coz i got a photo in my mobile of cid orafice on her phone whilst driving over 70mph on the a77

[erdnase]

Could have been one of the TETRA handsets the police use, which as far as I know, they have exemptions to use whilst driving. They look quite similar to mobiles.

[LHDisbest]

Lothian and Borders have a Passat Saloon on traffic duty. When i saw it i thought it was an R36 but it's just a 2.0 diesel.

Also watch down from Fairmilehead down to Peebles as the Traffic boys are using the road for driver training again.

[sherman]

Just spotted an unmarked BMW 5 series in champange or oyster colour with a set of strobes in the nose in the centre of falkirk by the gala bingo.

[Silverbullet767]

erdnase said:

Is it true that in Scotland, there has to be 2 officers in the car before they can prosecute for something, or has video evidence done away with that?

Also, a warning for 87 on the M77 is very fortunate! Some of the 50 stretches there seem awfully slow, and call me cynical, but I'm always expecting a camera van or some kind of speed enforcement to pop up there. Be like shooting fish in a barrel...

It wasn't a warning, I was lucky that the police were following a clio speeding, I was just matching their speed behind the coppers, when I decided I was bored and tried to overtake I got a 'slowly slowly' wave hand gesture, just before the blue's & Two's came on for the clio.

[grumpyscot]

Mate got caught in Musselburgh last week - unmarked silver CORSA, for heavens sake. Apparently its been quite successful at catching people on mobile phones, as you don't expect L&Bs finest (???) to be using a Corsa.

[Mr Trophy]

New shape or old? I am from Musselburgh

[Nicholas Blair]

Old shape 5 door - Think it's a CID car, but normal plod must have been using.

I've seen it cruising about.

[lambo_xx]

Insane that that's what taxpayers money is being spend on. Traffic police legally shouldn't be allowed to have unmarked cars imo

[sherman]

Unmarked Silver 57 plate 5 seies BMW up the A74 just outside crainlarich

[Fabric 2.2]

Spotted a Jag XF with a single copper driving through Springkerse industrial estate on tuesday, guessing it was the Cheif Of Police? Either that or someone in the budgeting section's made a cockup!

[Craigie]

sherman said:

Unmarked Silver 57 plate 5 seies BMW up the A74 just outside crainlarich

That M74 extension is fair going some distance!!!

[sherman]

Craigie said:

sherman said:

Unmarked Silver 57 plate 5 seies BMW up the A74 just outside crainlarich

That M74 extension is fair going some distance!!!

Ok the A84 then

[stormrider2]

ive seen a marked brand new x5 in kirkcaldy and an unmarked silver 5 series estate there too. parks at the prom and stops the folk racing, its rapid.

cupar has a crap 1.2 corsa D as their unmarked car.