Police dont get speeding tickets - its official

my work mate is a special and he got stopped for speeding, he casually flashed the officer his police ID and -
















he still got his speeding ticket

Look at the figures.. West Mids as an example. 8500 police vehicles activated cameras. Can you imagine how many emergency response incidents West Mids have each year? a hell of a lot more than 8500, and many of them have more than one vehicle responding. Yet still only 8500 vehicles were detected speeding, I'm amazed it's so low!
Could it be that when most police vehciles are on normal patrol duties the drivers use a bit of common sense and drive at sensible speeds? They know cameras exist and they know the consequences of offending and being caught.
Even the driving school, who teach response driving, pursuits etc, regularly have to justify their actions when caught by either speed, or red light, cameras!
If you were to check the figures for the other two emergency services I suspect you'd find a similar patern.
Stop knocking the police based on misleading statistics published by the media.

true story, one of the fellas i manage who works in a rehab in prison, was caught doing 110 down a dual carrageway, he even indicated and past a 'marked' police car, he was stopped, spoken with and he played the 'just left work' 'where do you work' 'in the prison' the officer then changed tone to a friendly one, and said dont do it again and gave him a ticket which said 'in excess of 70' he still got a ticket and 3 points, he had to produce when he turned up at police station to show all of it, when the clerk saw the 'in excess of 70' said 'so your job' the fella said no, she then said oh sorry, this is what comes in if police are stopped speeding.

for him a result as normally over a ton and its a ban... but.......he got £60 plus 3 points

Originally Posted by SV Muppet

statistics....... irrefutable ???

Yeah right!!!

Feel free to refute the statistics.

I am the first to question the British press & if it were one of the red tops I would not have even started this thread, but I dont remember the The Telegraph being dragged into court recently for making stuff up.

[Ch00]

Originally Posted by richie95

Stuff..........

What you are looking at is a Police Officer using his/her power of discretion!!!

Ask on this site who has

a) been stopped by the police and had commited some type of offence (speeding, mobile anything) and not had a any more than a roadside telling off? or

b) if they have been stopped for speeding and they ended with a lesser punishment than they thought they would get?


On a side note I can set off as many as five cameras on the way to a call, thats not a boast just a fact of driving in London.

Ch00

My brother is a paramedic, and he has said the same as others in this thread (emergency services drivers that is). In fact, he has exactly the same deal as Shell, despite being in a different area of the country.

As I've said on the .Org before, when not on a call, emergency services should be treated exactly the same as any other member of the public.

When on a call, all rules go out of the window as far as I'm concerned. If my family were in danger & someone got a speeding ticket because they were trying to help, I'd happily pay it for them!!

The misleading comment in the article is only a quarter are thought to be emergency responses, but all the other stats were passed to the media from each area. But- you dont expect me to beleive that only 11 vehicles vehicles weren't responding to emergency response incidents? Could it be? I would say probably or highly likely. I admire police work but I dont beleive for one minute the police drive like saints all of the time.

[yorkie_chris]

They drive a lot, so surely you're gonna get used to where the cameras are?

Originally Posted by Ch00

What you are looking at is a Police Officer using his/her power of discretion!!!

And do the powers above use their power of discretion when dealing with speeding officers?

Not that I beleive you would do such a thing Choo as I have ridden with you and know you are very sensible

Originally Posted by Ch00

On a side note I can set off as many as five cameras on the way to a call, thats not a boast just a fact of driving in London.

Ch00

Too True