2 New Unmarked Police Cars in Welly

**riffer** · 27th November 2003, 15:53

Gidday all.

Public Service announcement to all Hutt Motorway riders:

Seen on the Hutt Motorway this arvo going home. Two new unmarked Police Cars - silver XR6 Ford Falcons, reg BQL659 and BQL660.

Both checking out the traffic, one went off at Melling and the other stopped just before Belmont turnoff and checked traffic speed.

oh, and my speeding ticket arrived today

**k14** · 27th November 2003, 16:05

Dammit!!! Now i have to scope for fords and holdens!!!

Was it a turbo one??

**Nouseforaname** · 27th November 2003, 17:00

Has any body else in Auckland seen the crazy cars the cops are using to catch boy racers in town? i was riding up queen st only to see a 1970's something holden kingswood ute pulling somebody over, also 4 weeks ago when i was travelling down the south auckland motorway i saw a lowered mitsi legnum on 17" mags pulling some un-suspecting boy racer.

They must be using there new confiscation laws and taking the boy racers cars, putting lights and sirens in them and taking them on the prowl, only to remove them once the 28days is up....................would not surprise me in the slightest.

**Timber020** · 27th November 2003, 17:29

I was suprised enough to see the white holden vectra the other day as a copper, but I guess its been around the Hutt for a while

**riffer** · 27th November 2003, 18:00

Not that it makes much difference, but they are not turbo XR6's.

**georgedubyabush** · 27th November 2003, 21:54

Originally posted by Nouseforaname
Has any body else in Auckland seen the crazy cars the cops are using to catch boy racers in town? i was riding up queen st only to see a 1970's something holden kingswood ute pulling somebody over, also 4 weeks ago when i was travelling down the south auckland motorway i saw a lowered mitsi legnum on 17" mags pulling some un-suspecting boy racer.

They must be using there new confiscation laws and taking the boy racers cars, putting lights and sirens in them and taking them on the prowl, only to remove them once the 28days is up....................would not surprise me in the slightest.

that's just not cricket

**Lou Girardin** · 28th November 2003, 07:23

I doubt that the cops are using impounded cars, that's conversion.
But they do have a wide and varied range of covert vehicles for surveillance work, unusual for them to be used for traffic though.
If you did a runner from one they'd never be able to get a conviction for failing to stop. There's no way they'd prove that you knew it was a cop.
Lou

**aff-man** · 28th November 2003, 10:00

What out aucklanders a saw a bloody GMC of hugh ford type truck unmarked ,black, and full of armed police pulling people over along mission bay?????????

**duckman** · 28th November 2003, 10:06

Jesus Aff-Man, string the sentence together with words that we can all understand will ya .....

**Firefight** · 28th November 2003, 10:34

Originally posted by aff-man
What out aucklanders a saw a bloody GMC of hugh ford type truck unmarked ,black, and full of armed police pulling people over along mission bay?????????

Armed offender squad, or even worse the special tacitical assult team, it it is the latter don,t fuck with them, they normally drive around in black nissan patrols, (4x4) with big flat roof racks., I think they may be deployed down Wairoa atm

firefight

**jrandom** · 28th November 2003, 11:16

Originally posted by Firefight
the special tacitical assult team, it it is the latter don,t fuck with them

Special tactical assault team? Is that like an anti-terrorism unit? Cool, I didn't know we had one of those.

The important question is, of course, do they have any P90s? Assault teams are boring unless they have P90s.

And for that matter, why shouldn't we fuck with them? What are they gonna do, shoot us? That'd go down well. "Secret Police Assault Squad Guns Down Unarmed Motorcyclist"

(well, for certain values of 'unarmed', anyway

)

**marty** · 28th November 2003, 11:21

it is not unheard of to use impounded cars that have had ownership passed to the tow firm (after 56 days of impound).

i'd be surprised if an impounded legnum would be ignored by it's owner. perhaps they have a friendly at a car yard.

**Lou Girardin** · 28th November 2003, 12:27

If they impounded my bike/car, I'd be visiting it everyday.
Lou

**scumdog** · 29th November 2003, 15:56

Your'e all paranoid - the bogey man is going to get you -0000000000H!
Just ride, keep your eyes open and if you get pinged and given a ticket - harden up and stop whinging, softcocks