Police caught speeding 685 times last year.

[Swoop]

685 - 435 = 250.

Yes, we know that the Police get tickets from their "friends" in the taxation vans...
... but 250? :scratch:


Updated 8:38AM Tuesday June 19, 2007
By NZPA and Edward Gay

In most cases, police were on their way to emergencies.
Police officers were caught 685 times by speed cameras last year, it was reported today.

Radio New Zealand obtained the figures under the Official Information Act.

However, 435 tickets were waived because they were on their way to emergencies.

Police Association president Greg O'Connor said the story was a media beat-up.

"Police officers do thousands of kilometres a year and they occasionally get caught speeding," Mr O'Connor told nzherald.

He said that if they do not have an excuse and cannot produce evidence that they were heading to an emergency, including showing a job number, they get fined like anyone else.

The National Party's police spokesman, Chester Borrows, said officers were expected to abide by the law in the same way as the public, and their Speed Kills campaign should be backed by their own actions.

[onearmedbandit]

Well, well, I saw a cop texting while driving yesterday. I've already complained to the PCA, the CPA, the CAP, the ACP, and my local vicar. I'm so gunna nail him.

[Swoop]

Well, well, I saw a cop texting while driving yesterday.
Of course YOU would never do such a dangerous thing...:whistle::rofl:

[onearmedbandit]

Never, I mean if I did it would mean that I had to steer with my knee, while balancing a drink between my legs and holding onto a cigarette. Nope not me, I'm a perfect driver...

[sAsLEX]

Never, I mean if I did it would mean that I had to steer with my knee, while balancing a drink between my legs and holding onto a cigarette

And I suppose your going to tell us you do all this with one arm tied behind your back?

[Grub]

Never, I mean if I did it would mean that I had to steer with my knee, while balancing a drink between my legs and holding onto a cigarette. Nope not me, I'm a perfect driver...

How do you put your makeup on then ?

[Goblin]

Well, well, I saw a cop texting while driving yesterday.
:laugh: My daughter saw a cop picking his nose and eating it while driving.:sick:

[imdying]

Of course YOU would never do such a dangerous thing...:whistle::rofl:There's a video floating around of the first time I took my SV on the road after chopping the exhaust up... it's of a car following me down the road... I wonder who the driver was... OAB, you know who that was?? :dodge:

[onearmedbandit]

And I suppose your going to tell us you do all this with one arm tied behind your back?

Well I don't like to boast but...


How do you put your makeup on then ?

Silly, I do that before I leave home.


:laugh: My daughter saw a cop picking his nose and eating it while driving.:sick:

Ok, that's just wrong.

There's a video floating around of the first time I took my SV on the road after chopping the exhaust up... it's of a car following me down the road... I wonder who the driver was... OAB, you know who that was?? :dodge:

You're not suggesting that I drove a vehicle in the inner city for about 5km with one arm while operating a video camera? Sheesh, imagine if I had driven past some police, say on Fitzgerald Ave. Nope not me, remember I'm a perfect driver, like all other Kiwis.

BTW, before anyone gets upset, I don't text and drive.

[sAsLEX]

You're not suggesting that I drove a vehicle in the inner city for about 5km with one arm while operating a video camera?

lol I think he is alluding to the theme of my post?

[onearmedbandit]

lol I think he is alluding to the theme of my post?

Or maybe this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBwNG6Xrzrs) is the video he is talking about?

[Joni]

BTW, before anyone gets upset, I don't text and drive.I would hope not!

However that would be quite an interesting trick though :shit:

[Swoop]

:laugh: My daughter saw a cop picking his nose and eating it while driving.:sick:

Destroying evidence? Bolivian marching powder in the nasal cavity???:rofl:

[peasea]

685 - 435 = 250.

Yes, we know that the Police get tickets from their "friends" in the taxation vans...
... but 250? :scratch:

It doesn't seem like a big number to me, I'd hazard a guess heaps are shredded when they see it's a cop car in the frame.

Anywayyyyyy, I was behind a copper on the Shore the other day, Sunset Rd, and I tailed him at 60-65kph for most of the wee jaunt. We all do it, it's just that we have to pay, they don't. It's pretty simple. Media beat up? Sounds more like a perk of the job to me.:whocares:

[imdying]

Or maybe this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBwNG6Xrzrs) is the video he is talking about?Closed road, no animals were hurt in the making of this film yada yada.

[90s]

See: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10446556

Implies 250 paid tickets not waived and actuall paid. Can it be?

I'm stroking my chin Jimmy Hill style here ...
(bling for the first to post a good pick of Jimmy and a suitable explantion for those that don't get it)

[TerminalAddict]

linky linky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hill

[90s]

linky linky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hill

Very quick! From your link:
"The term "Jimmy Hill" is also often used to describe someone as not telling the whole truth. It is likely the linking grew from people suggesting someone is not telling the truth by scratching their own chins, and from the distinct chin feature of Jimmy Hill. A often used phrase is "Are you taking the Jimmy Hill?"."

We would tend to say "Jimmy"

So, are the cops really paying or is it all porkies
(as in pork pies - lies)

[Swoop]

It doesn't seem like a big number to me...
That is the way I was reading it. Compared to the millions of kilometres driven on patrol, etc.

[Clockwork]

250 times. So the 7000 officers who between them drive around in patrol cars on shift work 24 hours a day 365 days a year were caught speeding 250 times between them without being able to provide details of why they were speeding. None of the speeds were in huge excess, most likely due to inattention, but they did get issued tickets. While no speeding is good in police cars (unless it is justified) as you get jumped on so quickly i hardly think this is worth a beat up.

Well I don't care so long as none of the ones ticketed were HP

[peasea]

That is the way I was reading it. Compared to the millions of kilometres driven on patrol, etc.

Correct.

Also.....count the number of times you/I speed and do and don't get caught versus the k's we do. Use the same formula on the police mileage and bingo, you don't come up with a few hundy tickets do ya? It'd be more like in the thousands, it's just that shredders work harder for some than they do for others.

[NighthawkNZ]

Of course YOU would never do such a dangerous thing...:whistle::rofl:

no I wouldn't (I don't know how to txt :doh: )

[deanohit]

Or maybe this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBwNG6Xrzrs) is the video he is talking about?

Cool vid.that bike looks awesome.also some big respect for you with the wheelies.:Punk:

[riffer]

Shit. Who cares?

I've got more important things to worry about in my life than some coppers speeding.

Imdying's fabricated exhaust; now that's cool...

[Slingshot]

Shit. Who cares?

I've got more important things to worry about in my life than some coppers speeding.

Imdying's fabricated exhaust; now that's cool...

More important things like.....posting on a website to say that you don't care about something?:dodge:

[shcabbeh]

I'd be interested in comparing the amount of coppers' deaths with the amount of public deaths as a result of speeding.

[riffer]

More important things like.....posting on a website to say that you don't care about something?:dodge:

Nah - more important things like finding roads with no radar, laser or speed cameras - you bloody nana. (right back atcha :dodge:)

[scumdog]

Correct.

It'd be more like in the thousands, it's just that shredders work harder for some than they do for others.


All tickets are accountable - they all have individual numbers.

They get audited and (not talking about speed-camers here) the carbon copy of the ticket you have just received goes off to the Infringement Beureau (sp?) so if you tore up YOUR ticket and the cop tore up the carbon copy there would be a letter at some stage asking the cop where the missing ticket "between number xxxxx and zzzzz" has gone.

Of course in any system there is likely to be a hiccup - but not for hundreds of tickets..

[peasea]

All tickets are accountable - they all have individual numbers.

They get audited and (not talking about speed-camers here) the carbon copy of the ticket you have just received goes off to the Infringement Beureau (sp?) so if you tore up YOUR ticket and the cop tore up the carbon copy there would be a letter at some stage asking the cop where the missing ticket "between number xxxxx and zzzzz" has gone.

Of course in any system there is likely to be a hiccup - but not for hundreds of tickets..

I was thinking more of camera pics....
Numbered tickets are a bitch aren't they?

[spudchucka]

I was thinking more of camera pics....
Numbered tickets are a bitch aren't they?

The cameras still generate an audit trail.

[peasea]

The cameras still generate an audit trail.

I've been a party to 'tidying up' audit trails............it doesn't take a genius, which is how I managed it.

[scumdog]

I've been a party to 'tidying up' audit trails............it doesn't take a genius, which is how I managed it.

'Tidying up' is like going down a shingle-slide in the dark.

All going well and you'll get there - but hit one hidden rock or root and hoooo boy! it all ends in tears..:yes:

[spudchucka]

I've been a party to 'tidying up' audit trails............it doesn't take a genius, which is how I managed it.

Don't judge others by your own low standards.

[peasea]

Don't judge others by your own low standards.


Just making comparisons.

[peasea]

'Tidying up' is like going down a shingle-slide in the dark.

All going well and you'll get there - but hit one hidden rock or root and hoooo boy! it all ends in tears..:yes:

You're not wrong, pays to cross t's and dot i's in some cases doesn't it?