LASER = Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

 

I tend to agree with some of what you have said. But I still think that you are failing to realise that the Police are only doing what they are told. The public blame the actual officers for what they are doing when infact they are often just following orders.
Also im not sure about other forces but here in Humberside the vans are not staffed by Traffic Officers so it isnt diminishing the amount of them patrolling around.
Finally saying that they dont apply enough urgency to burglary / drugs offences etc is unfair. If a burglary in progress is reported they will attend asap. If its not for a while then maybe its because the powers that be arent giving them enough officers to staff the area. As for drugs offences, you would not even believe the problems drugs cause and the problems of finding and seizing them. It is unreal the amount of pro-active and covert activity that goes on that you will never hear about in the papers or on the news because of its sensitive nature.

As I have said before, the sooner the government taking the respobsibility of enforcing traffic law away from the Police and give it to an independant organisation, the better!!

Si

 

Please don't take this the wrong way as it's not meant to get your back up and I have a lot of respect for anyone who has to go through. A friend of mine is a fireman who attends RTAs and some of the stories he has told make me feel queasy just thinking about it.

At the end of the day, we all have to die at some point, and there are many different ways to do it, yet the nanny state we live in insists on controlling our lives in so many different ways. Penalising people for driving over the limit is just one form of control.

If the government were serious about saving lives on the road, they would educate young kids in schools how to cross roads safely , like they did when I was a nipper, they would raise the driving standards by increasing the requirements of the test, they would ensure that traffic targeted bad driving (including lane hogging, lack of indication etc) and not just the **** on these roads who endanger people.

I could go on, but I hope you see where I am coming from.

 

I would just like to say that i wasn't out to cause an argument. But thank you for all the info it's been good reading.

 

Ive just had my letter through i did reportedly 59 in a 40. Now, bear in mind that this road has always been national speed limit. They tear down a old hotel put up a housing estate. Before you all go well there you are, the entrance to the housing estate is not on the dual carriageway but 400 yrds back behind me right hand turn then 50 yrds on the right. The ENTIRE housing estate is surrounded by at least a 15 foot wall so.....WTF is it 40 mph??????????????? its a dual carriageway heading into the feckin countryside how does that qualify as a 40 limit?????????
Im not impressed and are going to try to fight it RIDICULOUS!!

 

Adrian, it`s a coincedence that you should mention car-jacking, as I`ve been on duty tonight, and someone in the Stockport area has been the victim of a "car-jacking" (Feel sorry for the victim BTW, and hope it`s not anyone from here), where their Scoob has been taken by low-life, in nasty circumstances from what I could gather over the radio.

I can`t give too many details out (for obvious reasons), but the car was recovered, by the Police, within about 20 minutes of the job being given out.

I mention this because you mention that you feel the same zealousness is not applied to these matters, as it is to speed-enforcement.

Mate, honestly, if you could have heard the radio when the job was given out tonight, there were Traffic Cops shouting from areas as far away as Wigan (about 35 miles from Stockport, for those who don`t know the area), to come over and try and assist in catching these low-life, and recovering the guy`s Scoob. The helicopter was sent up as well; itself a major cost, everytime it takes off.

I`m not looking for pats on the back here, nor are any of us, but if you could just see what actually does go on, and the lengths that we go to to lock-up the crims, including us Traffic Cops, then it would open your eyes.

For what it`s worth, my slant on speed cameras is that they`re no use at all, and if the Goverment think that they have improved road-safety by installing these things everywhere, which they ARE/HAVE replaced Traffic Cops with, then they are fooling nobody but themselves.

Again, I would echo what someone further up the thread says, in that the sooner they give speed-enforcement to other agencies, THE BETTER !, and leave us Traffic Cops alone to perhaps try and win a bit of confidence back from the public, as they see us as the lowest-of-the-low at the moment.

Anyway, this is not a rant, BTW, but you can see that I get a bit passionate about this subject...............

 

No worries mate.

This is not an argument BTW, this is just Scoobynet. You want to see some of the other threads, where someone says their car is faster than someone else`s.
Fuggin `ell .....................................

 

Totally agree.

Traffic cops on here going off on a rant about mangled bodies and such is beside the point. Im sure these people are not in that state because they were going a few mph over the speed limit. The govts own figures prove that even the vast increase in speeding convictions has done nothing to reduce RTA's. Its a revenue maker and nothing else. Its dangerous driving etc that causes accisents. Better education of drivers is the answer or more bobbies in cars on patrol and less ***** in vans and with hand held guns hiding in bushes.

 

Can someone please explain to this new comer what BTW stands for?

 

BTW = by the way
IMHO = in my humble opinion
TBH = to be honest
etc etc
BTT = back to top

 

The laser itself is good for a mile plus but the optics for the video aren't. If it is a BiB stopping you then anywhere out to a mile. If it is scamera van 400m tops.