Forming opinions..
Discussion
It's my understanding that police officers are not allowed to indiscriminately target drivers with roadside speedchecks, i.e. before doing so they must form an opinion that a vehicle is exceeding the limit.
Police officers are deemed to be experts on matters of speeding and as such are able to decide by sight/sound alone if a vehicle is exceeding the limit, but what about civilian operators? Do they have to be of the opinion that a vehicle is exceeding the limit prior to lasering it? If so what special skills do they have to enable them to do this?
On a similar note does anyone know if records are kept of all the checks carried out by a operator during a day. These records could then be reviewed to verify that only vehicles believed to be exceeding the limit were being targeted as opposed to every car coming down the road.
Police officers are deemed to be experts on matters of speeding and as such are able to decide by sight/sound alone if a vehicle is exceeding the limit, but what about civilian operators? Do they have to be of the opinion that a vehicle is exceeding the limit prior to lasering it? If so what special skills do they have to enable them to do this?
On a similar note does anyone know if records are kept of all the checks carried out by a operator during a day. These records could then be reviewed to verify that only vehicles believed to be exceeding the limit were being targeted as opposed to every car coming down the road.
No discretion is ever used, its a case of "i think" so it must be true.
Like the guy who had the Mk2 escort up the road from me.
If a cop was waiting up the road he'd have been rubbing his hands together with glee,"oooh another nick" er no mate.
His car "sounded" fast, it did for all the world sound like he was doin a hundred...until he came past at a lazy 25....lmao.
I kid you not.
Like the guy who had the Mk2 escort up the road from me.
If a cop was waiting up the road he'd have been rubbing his hands together with glee,"oooh another nick" er no mate.
His car "sounded" fast, it did for all the world sound like he was doin a hundred...until he came past at a lazy 25....lmao.
I kid you not.
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