Scores of police at Magor services today

[monkey43]

Anyone know why?

There must have been, conservatively, over 20 cars and 40-50 officers stationed at Magor services this morning.Are they clamping down on certain motorists?

[babelfish]

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/LocalPages/NewsDetails.aspx?nsid=9345&t=4  ?

[monkey43]

Ta.

It's good to see resources ploughed into catching real criminals rather than the unfair pursuit of legitamite drivers occasionally transgressing out of date speed limits.

Let's here it for RNPR - police doing something sensible at last

[i want an aero]

FishFace said:

ANPR is a great system. Needs to be more widespread and more linked between forces.

Instead of PCSOs, council wardens, community safety wardens and the 5 billion other shit jobs they should just plow it into the Police and have loads of operations like this on a daily basis.

unfortunaley all these are labour spin, they quote these thing as areas that have been improved and billions spent. just employ proper police who can arrest people and not have to run around after these fake civil servants without any powers

[polus]

i want an aero said:

FishFace said:

ANPR is a great system. Needs to be more widespread and more linked between forces.

Instead of PCSOs, council wardens, community safety wardens and the 5 billion other shit jobs they should just plow it into the Police and have loads of operations like this on a daily basis.

unfortunaley all these are labour spin, they quote these thing as areas that have been improved and billions spent. just employ proper police who can arrest people and not have to run around after these fake civil servants without any powers

Indeed!

Then build some more fecking prisons so tough sentences aren’t an abnormality.

[jimmyb]

It was the same story (numbers etc)on the m25 jct20-22 yesterday. Called hampshire police who not so politely told me to b***er off and mind my own business and that if i wanted to know hat they were doing i would have to apply in writing under the official freedom of information act.

more people power tripping only now its the police thinking they are M15

[Mr_annie_vxr]

jimmyb said:

It was the same story (numbers etc)on the m25 jct20-22 yesterday. Called hampshire police who not so politely told me to b***er off and mind my own business and that if i wanted to know hat they were doing i would have to apply in writing under the official freedom of information act.

more people power tripping only now its the police thinking they are M15

Hardly. The police are not going to tell you what they are doing and they are not likely to give a 'heads up' to a criminal about there activities. In the same way if you see a front door smashed in at ahouse they won't tell you about that either. The police have secrets and operations that are to be polite none of your business. I'd be most annoyed if I had set up an operation only for someone to phone up and be told all about it. Thus defeating the object of the operation.

Even other officers are not aware of many operations that get run. Why should a member of the public be any more informed?

[A57 HSV]

jimmyb said:

It was the same story (numbers etc)on the m25 jct20-22 yesterday. Called hampshire police who not so politely told me to b***er off and mind my own business and that if i wanted to know hat they were doing i would have to apply in writing under the official freedom of information act.

more people power tripping only now its the police thinking they are M15

I spotted that as well, a whole fleet of plain Vectras (with blue lights in rear window) lined up on the hard shoulder.

[jimmyb]

Bad news. Prisons are not overcrowded they are underfunded hence....

[delboy735]

polus said:

i want an aero said:

FishFace said:

ANPR is a great system. Needs to be more widespread and more linked between forces.

Instead of PCSOs, council wardens, community safety wardens and the 5 billion other shit jobs they should just plow it into the Police and have loads of operations like this on a daily basis.

unfortunaley all these are labour spin, they quote these thing as areas that have been improved and billions spent. just employ proper police who can arrest people and not have to run around after these fake civil servants without any powers

Indeed!

Then build some more fecking prisons so tough sentences aren’t an abnormality.

They should get that american Bod to build a tent prison, surround it with Mahoosive guards and big guns, and then let locals feed them with leftovers........if they can be arsed to trudge 50mls from nearest town !! Beyond that, let the bastards starve.

[Pickled Piper]

OK, I'll be the first to say it "two for one on doughnuts"

I'll get my coat.

pp

[s2art]

FishFace said:

ANPR is a great system. Needs to be more widespread and more linked between forces.

Instead of PCSOs, council wardens, community safety wardens and the 5 billion other shit jobs they should just plow it into the Police and have loads of operations like this on a daily basis.

The PNC do offer a national ANPR service. Just transmit the plate info to PNC and it is checked against the national database for all interest markers. Response time is sub-second.