Where have all the Traffic Police gone !!!!!!!
Discussion
Dave 500 said:
I think anyone who likes driving should move to the thames valley we don't have any traffic cars anymore and you can now drive as fast as you like..... I hav'nt seen one for about three months. I've heard of cut backs but have they cut them all.
Don't be tempted to have a "play" with a Silver E39 M5 along the M4 corridor with plate "M5 YEP". You'd get a nasty surprise.
>> Edited by outnumbered on Monday 19th September 17:26
outnumbered said:
I think anyone who likes driving should move to the thames valley we don't have any traffic cars anymore and you can now drive as fast as you like..... I hav'nt seen one for about three months. I've heard of cut backs but have they cut them all.
Don't be tempted to have a "play" with a Silver E39 M5 along the M4 corridor with plate "M5 YEP". You'd get a nasty surprise.
>> Edited by outnumbered on Monday 19th September 17:26
Tell me I have assumed the wrong thing and taxpayers money is not spent on an M5 with a private plate.... please!?
I have seen everything now...
I wonder what the justification is to charge the taxpayer for the service schedule and the petrol for that running it up and down the M4 all day...
I dont see the justification for them to run it over the 525 or 530 for example. The number plate is also a public asset which would have better use being sold for going toward something better rather than have money tied up in something which has no use whatsoever in aiding the traffic police.
Unless of course the idea is to purposely travel above the speed limit in a convoy to catch commuters etc... then we are talking about the rights to break the speed limit in the other thread.
Another fine job of ostracising the honest worker and showing where his taxes go...
I wonder what the justification is to charge the taxpayer for the service schedule and the petrol for that running it up and down the M4 all day...
I dont see the justification for them to run it over the 525 or 530 for example. The number plate is also a public asset which would have better use being sold for going toward something better rather than have money tied up in something which has no use whatsoever in aiding the traffic police.
Unless of course the idea is to purposely travel above the speed limit in a convoy to catch commuters etc... then we are talking about the rights to break the speed limit in the other thread.
Another fine job of ostracising the honest worker and showing where his taxes go...
Mr Whippy said:
Sorry but an M5 TafPol car is cool. I'm glad some of my money at least is going on decent cars to catch bad motorists on the road.
Better than it going on yellow boxes or speed bumps or some other useless crap like that!
Dave
Fine... if it WAS a traffic car... but without lights and stripes it's just as sneaky as a scamvan.
pwig said:
justinp1 said:
Tell me I have assumed the wrong thing and taxpayers money is not spent on an M5 with a private plate.... please!?
'fraid not. I've seen it with my own eyes, blues flashing.
That's the fire cheifs car is it not?
Now *that* would make more sense! (As I am still wanting not to believe that this could be an undercover police car)
I can't believe it's an unmarked police car ..... they wouldn't want a plate that stands out.
A fire chiefs car makes more sense - they get blues and twos for their private cars which are often rather tasty....
I personally don't think having the odd M5, etc for trafpol is such a bad idea ........ spend more on their cars and less on the cameras ! Mobile camera vans keep people on their toes and so would the knowledge that unmarked cars are being more widely used ...... and I know which one I would rather have!
A fire chiefs car makes more sense - they get blues and twos for their private cars which are often rather tasty....
I personally don't think having the odd M5, etc for trafpol is such a bad idea ........ spend more on their cars and less on the cameras ! Mobile camera vans keep people on their toes and so would the knowledge that unmarked cars are being more widely used ...... and I know which one I would rather have!
john57 said:
I can't believe it's an unmarked police car ..... they wouldn't want a plate that stands out.
A fire chiefs car makes more sense - they get blues and twos for their private cars which are often rather tasty....
I just saw the car with blues going and jumped to the "obvious" conclusion. I didn't know any other emergency service used unmarked cars with blue lights.
So here's the challenge - next person to see that car, race it, and let us know what happens
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