Hazzard County

[red mermaid]

If this forum was around when Traffic Officers were Traffic Cops and Police were just Cops I wonder how this 'conversation' would go...

What do you mean by that, cause being of an age I can remember back then.

[Patrick]

If this forum was around when Traffic Officers were Traffic Cops and Police were just Cops I wonder how this 'conversation' would go...

But it aint...

So stop speeding, register your vehicles, get your licenses, stop drinking and driving, stop driving like dicks, stop for reds, get that WOF, fix those blown headlights (plural - at night....ffs!!!!) blah blah blah.... so I can catch real crims!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

My Mrs gets to work with several cops in her job and has been told Hazard County is the area they send 'green' traffic cops to learn their trade. Might be the reason for some ever zealous nick picking eh!

[red mermaid]

That would be too easy.

They would rather get caught so they can moan day and night.

[SixPackBack]

Murdering copper goes on trial....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10612565

A police officer allegedly beat up a man in the back of a patrol car who was subsequently fatally injured in a street accident, a court heard today.
When the frightened man fled, he was struck and killed by a street sweeper, according to the Crown prosecutor.
George Tipene Harris died on the way to hospital on October 3, 2004 after being hit by the truck. The man he was running from, Clinton Lyall Hill, 34, today went on trial charged with his manslaughter.
The Crown says Hill, who can be named after a suppression order lapsed this morning, is responsible for Mr Harris' death because he was so frightened of him he ran into the path of the truck while he was trying to escape.
He is also charged with assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice. He denies all the charges.

In his opening address at the High Court at Auckland today, Crown prosecutor Stuart Grieve said Mr Harris had been arrested by Hill after an altercation outside a south Auckland night club and was being taken to a police station.
Both men had been drinking and Mr Harris had been denied entry to the night club. Hill was talking on his cell phone when an altercation between them started in which Hill's jacket was torn. He arrested Harris, intending to take him to the Wiri Rd police station but instead flagged down a patrol car.

The two officers in the car agreed to take them to the police station and it was on the way there the Crown alleges Hill assaulted Mr Harris. Mr Grieve said Hill told the constables to drive to a car park around the back of a bank.
One of the officers left the car but the other stayed in the front seat. Mr Grieve said it was the Crown case that Hill assaulted Mr Harris in the back seat and outside alongside the patrol car.
Mr Grieve said at some point Mr Harris managed to get away from Hill which he was "fully entitled to do" because although he was lawfully arrested he was being "unlawfully assaulted".
"The accused had no right or justification for assaulting him in the back of the car or alongside it."
The officers drove around searching for him, eventually seeing him on nearby Ryan Place. Hill told him to get back in the car but Mr Harris refused.
"No doubt fearing further assaults he ran off again," Mr Grieve said.
Mr Harris ran off and was then hit by the street sweeper.
In the investigation that followed, Hill made no reference to the alleged assaults as he attempted to "cover up" what happened, the court heard.
Hill's lawyer, John Haigh QC, said Mr Harris' death was an ""absolute tragedy" but his client was not criminally responsible for it.
He said no assault took place and that Mr Harris was fleeing lawful police custody when he died.
The trial has been set down for two weeks.

[red mermaid]

Murdering copper goes on trial....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10612565

A police officer allegedly beat up a man in the back of a patrol car who was subsequently fatally injured in a street accident, a court heard today.
When the frightened man fled, he was struck and killed by a street sweeper, according to the Crown prosecutor.
George Tipene Harris died on the way to hospital on October 3, 2004 after being hit by the truck. The man he was running from, Clinton Lyall Hill, 34, today went on trial charged with his manslaughter.
.

I bit off topic, or are you trying to say something?

[Patrick]

Manslaughteringcopper goes on trial....

There ya go... fixed it.

I heard the street sweeper was speeding.....

[westie]

There ya go... fixed it.

I heard the street sweeper was speeding.....

Speed kils!

Another reason to slow down!

[SixPackBack]

There ya go... fixed it.

I heard the street sweeper was speeding.....

Incredible, but not surprising...............Trivialising and making excuses for the prick!

You should be ashamed Patrick.

[scumdog]

Incredible, but not surprising...............Trivialising and making excuses for the prick!

You should be ashamed Patrick.

Yeahh, the prick shouldn't have run from the dude..

[red mermaid]

And it makes no difference that the police system caught this guy out, who could very likely have been dobbed in by other police officers.

[Patrick]

Incredible, but not surprising...............Trivialising and making excuses for the prick!

You should be ashamed Patrick.

Nah. It's called black humour.... if one can still call it that.....

Other than thepoint the Defendant claimed, "escaping custody..."

But I guess because he is a cop, he must be guilty before the trial then......

And it makes no difference that the police system caught this guy out, who could very likely have been dobbed in by other police officers.

Exactly.

But that can't be true... The system works???? FFS..... what next....

[Patrick]

The Jury is in. Not Guilty of Manslaughter..... undecided on the other charges, so a retrial on the other charges is likely.

How can that be, SPB....?

He was guilty before his trial..... apparently.

So..... what happened....?

[peasea]

Incredible, but not surprising...............Trivialising and making excuses for the prick!

You should be ashamed Patrick.

Fat chance..........

[Mom]

I saw something I have never, ever seen before today, in Warkworth, or anywhere else come to that. No public reason for it mind, and we rarely see any 2 wheeled plod in town.


10, I counted them, bike cops in convoy, in town, heading out of Warkworth, slowly. Late morning, actually thinking, it was probably just after midday. Must have been something significant for them. I thought about it.