Number plate! Really.

[mel]

tom_e said:

NS400R said:

Refer said copper to ACPO guidelines which say if it can be read at 20.5m, then no action. I know they're only guidelines, but they are persuasive.

And he'll refer you to the "Here's an on the spot fine now sod off and sort it" law.

If they're being decent and just asking you to fix it then there's no point getting smart.

Or he'll point out that The Association of Chief Police Officers Ltd (ACPO) was disbanded in 2015 and no longer exists, so the relevance is?

[powerstroke]

Silver993tt said:

Fusilier187 said:

Its amazing that you can have two guys doing the same job and one is such a knob jockey that the other one just stands there shaking his head at him and looking at me like 'sorry mate'
Fined and back to big plates to alleviate the need for a tug at all

Another way of looking at it is that one was doing his job (as he found that you had an illegal plate and you now use a legal one) and one wasn't doing his job.

Yes exactly , and now the roads are safe utopia for all

[Silver993tt]

powerstroke said:

Silver993tt said:

Fusilier187 said:

Its amazing that you can have two guys doing the same job and one is such a knob jockey that the other one just stands there shaking his head at him and looking at me like 'sorry mate'
Fined and back to big plates to alleviate the need for a tug at all

Another way of looking at it is that one was doing his job (as he found that you had an illegal plate and you now use a legal one) and one wasn't doing his job.

Yes exactly , and now the roads are safe utopia for all

Well, when someone with a tiny plate hits someone crossing the road and drives on without stopping and witnesses can't read the plate because it's so small then no, the roads have not become safer at all . I've travelled all over Europe and it's only the UK where bikers mess around illegally with their number plates. Everyone else just gets on with enjoying being on a bike.

[Fusilier187]

Silver993tt said:

nother way of looking at it is that one was doing his job (as he found that you had an illegal plate and you now use a legal one) and one wasn't doing his job.

Never an argument from me it was illegal until I was tugged and told.
Im a big boy, once I was told I changed it.
To measure it and have me stood there wasting my time was in no one's benefit.
Im sure highly skilled officers like that could be out doing something a tad more important

[NS400R]

mel said:

tom_e said:

NS400R said:

Refer said copper to ACPO guidelines which say if it can be read at 20.5m, then no action. I know they're only guidelines, but they are persuasive.

And he'll refer you to the "Here's an on the spot fine now sod off and sort it" law.

If they're being decent and just asking you to fix it then there's no point getting smart.

Or he'll point out that The Association of Chief Police Officers Ltd (ACPO) was disbanded in 2015 and no longer exists, so the relevance is?

Relevance being that the successor, the NPCC have adopted the ACPO guidelines
As I said, it isn't the law, but it is relevant. There's nothing offensive about merely saying that you consulted guidelines and applied them.

[tom_e]

If you can find a way of putting that across without sounding like a smart arse when you are actually displaying an illegal plate which breaks a law rather than a guideline then you're a better man than me.

[Pothole]

mel said:

tom_e said:

NS400R said:

Refer said copper to ACPO guidelines which say if it can be read at 20.5m, then no action. I know they're only guidelines, but they are persuasive.

And he'll refer you to the "Here's an on the spot fine now sod off and sort it" law.

If they're being decent and just asking you to fix it then there's no point getting smart.

Or he'll point out that The Association of Chief Police Officers Ltd (ACPO) was disbanded in 2015 and no longer exists, so the relevance is?

The guidelines weren't immediately thrown out, were they?