Thread: Can the police hide whilst doing speed checks (NSW)?

at least there not as sneaky as they are in some other countries

Originally Posted by p38arover

They catch the drivers who are still slowing from the 110km/h section to the 90km/h section.

Death defying act eh?

As far as I know in WA for a tripod mounted radar they can conceal themselves and the radar but they must display a sign on the side of the road within 200m of the unit stating that radar is in use. Of course in practice they always display the sign 200m after the radar setup.

Speed fines have been overturned in WA where it has been shown the coppers set up the sign but then tried to conceal it by parking a car in front of it to render it invisible.

Might be different for a hand held radar jobs.

Originally Posted by lxpossessed

at least there not as sneaky as they are in some other countries

Makes me wish I drove a garbage truck.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Makes me wish I drove a garbage truck.

Wouldn't that be lovely!

The Highway Patrol cars do hide in the bushes, particularly north and south of Goulburn NSW, where they use the bushes between the north and south bound sides. Be extra careful from just north of Marulan to after Gunning on the Hume Highway

they hide a lot on the northern beaches and north shore.
the funniest one i saw was a cop hiding behind a telegraph pole trying to catch people using the transit lane on spit rd, his fat gut out one side of the pole and his big arse out the other gave him away.

several years ago paul wheelen i believe made a directive, not a law that police veh had to be visable when operating radar thats when they started only marking the sides of radar cars so they were visable but you couldnt tell they were police untill you passed themthis was after a radio station cornered him about the revenue side of the fines. as the law was not changed it proberbly would still stand up in court if they did hide