Thread: Look out for all the coppers on the road

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Who's been picked up by the fuzz then?

As a fellow Suzi driver you know that we don't break the speed limit. Numerous noise and air pollution laws maybe.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Who's been picked up by the fuzz then?

Does losing your brief 6 times, mountains of dollars in fines, a few "runs", I guess you could say I have

I work close to the Police Academy here in WA and I can tell you the standard of driving even of instructors there, isn't any too good.
I'm talking ordinary driving like we do, signalling, road positioning etc., not high speed stuff which they may well be good at.
A new lot of recruits passed out recently and most go straight into what's called here the TEG .... Traffic Enforcement Group.
Two colleagues of mine had sons go straight into this mob and one says he has seen his son’s cop's licence which advises them that they "are not required to obey any traffic regulation while driving their Police vehicle"!
Nothing about when in pursuit or going on an emergency call, just do what they like and don't bother setting an example to the driving public of how it should be done.
Basically what both went through was a driving test, a couple of days at the local raceway, a sergeant goes out with them for 2 days and that's it.
Long gone are the days in WA when a copper had to walk the beat and actually meet the public on their own ground, before given the privilege of driving a fancy vehicle.
But as a mate who's a detective says "they can't keep them in unless they give them a car to drive".
It’s not a job I could do or ever want to do and I've got a tremendous amount of respect for general duties cops, but after hearing (now we can no longer hear them as they’ve gone digital and seeing their own standard of driving), the excuses of traffic cops not to attend "ordinary" jobs because they are “traffic”, I've got no time for them regardless of what anyone else thinks about them.
I do accept however that pulling bodies from cars and telling rellies what’s happened must be bloody awful.
And I admit to 4 tickets for minor speeding offences over 36 years, but in WA given that's about the only thing you can get a ticket for, that’s not too bad a record.
“Inappropriate speed kills but stupidity kills at any speed”.
Happy motoring.
Alan.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Brian...are you actually able to say anything that doesn't have a sexual connotation?

I wait with baited breath.....

I see where you are going with this, and wholey agree, it's much less time consuming to be direct, just walk up and ask for a shag, whats the worst thing that can happen.

Originally Posted by SmokyBear

John could you please link your source information for the "facts" quoted in your post? I find some of them hard to believe.

My real world experience is that two of the four traffic accidents that I attended last month resulted from driver inattention caused by mobile phones. Thankfully neither was fatal. I trust my eyes more than I trust statistics.

Here are the statistics for NSW
Crash statistics

Search through the documents for phone. Close enough to zero to be negligible.

Simon

Originally Posted by dobbo

I see where you are going with this, and wholey agree, it's much less time consuming to be direct, just walk up and ask for a shag, whats the worst thing that can happen.

Think you can keep your shag, thanks.

Simon



Wait for it...

and its holding its leg in a funny position

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

It's on a rock too

Boom tish.

And here's the link
The RSPB: Shag

Simon