2 New Unmarked Police Cars in Welly

**Timber020** · 30th November 2003, 10:26

You have to be a little paranoid, I have seen cops up here on foot hiding behind powerpoles, behind temporary plastic works barriers, operating off overpasses and operating all sorts of mufti cars.
Paranoid? Hell yeah, when I ride to work I take different routes and I know for a fact that they have been waiting on one road with 2 cops cars at 7 in the morning for me. (they nabbed a workmate and said that they were there at that time to get a guy on a bike that fitted my description.)
Perhaps the cops arent as serious down your ways or riding a cruiser limits the severity of the ticket you can get

I dont want a ticket and will be as paranoid as I need to be to avoid them (this side of riding to the letter of the law of course).
I have had one ticket in the last 3 years and took it without complaint, but more may mean no more bike riding and that would make me a seathing ball of darkness.

And you wouldnt like me when Im a seathing ball of darkness.

**marty** · 30th November 2003, 12:04

fuck some people smoke WAY too much cannabis. lighten up for fucks sake

**Timber020** · 30th November 2003, 20:53

Its not cannibis mate, its motul! (castol makes my powervalves all to sticky)

**750Y** · 1st December 2003, 15:32

Originally posted by Firefight
Armed offender squad, or even worse the special tacitical assult team, it it is the latter don,t fuck with them...they may be deployed down Wairoa atm
firefight

lol, aahh fond memories of the town where i was born. ;-)
nice to know some things never change.
Also I remember cops in the Hutt used to drive around in an unmarked old hq & also a viva. they've been doing it for ages.
I've heard of the cops in OZ having unmarked bikes too 8-(.

LB · 1st December 2003, 18:24

Thanks for the info Celticno6. Will keep our eyes peeled.

Lynda

**Coldkiwi** · 2nd December 2003, 09:48

word from our friend Andrew is that he nearly got pulled by a piggy in a early 90's mazda familia hatch coming over the bridge this morning.

I counted three marked cars on my commute on the motorway this morning (one HP sedan, one HP ute, one Gen duties) and have seen two different unmarked commodores pulling boy racers over in the last two days on Casurina Drive in Howick.

They seem awfully busy and ingenious all of a sudden... must be a clamp down to make themselves look good for the end of year.what is it with those boys? have they not got more important robberies/rapes/assaults to follow up on??? I'd really rather see them publish the headline '95% of burglary and assault cases followed up and arrests made in 2003' than 'we're wasting our 2003 budget putting 180 new cars on the road to punish you for exceeding 10kmhr over the limit'.

How about we get to vote for the police commissioner as well as our politicians?? I think that would spark a real change in positive attitudes.

**Coldkiwi** · 2nd December 2003, 09:54

Originally posted by 750Y
I've heard of the cops in OZ having unmarked bikes too 8-(.

yeah, it could be worse here. Superbike Mag published an article a year or two back that exposayed (sp?) the vehicles the UK gatso have to play with... included poxy opels of course but also some turboed volvos and (shudder) some unmarked CBR 900 fireblades!!

BASTARDS!

**marty** · 2nd December 2003, 23:12

cops are hunting the boy racers at the moment so their cars are impounded over the xmas break

**Lou Girardin** · 9th December 2003, 09:42

It might be paranoia, but traffic enforcement has become intensive near my home since I started winding the cops and LTSA up in the media. Before that I hardly saw a cop.
Lou

**riffer** · 9th December 2003, 09:58

Interestingly, they've added a motorcycle cop to my local travelling route now.

He pulled out just behind me at Moonshine Road turnoff (River Road) and I'm thinking bugger no lane splitting today at all. That's going to add another 20 minutes to my 25 minute road to work.

So we get to the slowdown just after Melling and lo and behold he starts splitting right down the middle of the lanes, weaving from left to right lane.

Well, if its good enough for him, its good enough for me, so I start following him.

We go about a km or two through the traffic until nearly at the Korokoro lights, and inexplicably he turns his lights on and pulls over some young woman in a Vitara.

I sheepishly kept going, hoping like hell that he didn't see me and once 500m away just pull b a c k on that throttle a bit more

Got to work on time YAY!!

**Coldkiwi** · 9th December 2003, 11:01

nice one celtic! I love days like that when the cops pull off or someone else over instead of making you sit behind the rest of the lemmings

**k14** · 9th December 2003, 11:33

You need to get a photo of that. So when one of us gets done, we can bring out the photo!!!

**Timber020** · 9th December 2003, 18:17

The LTSA is puting a HEAP of money (and I mean heap!)into to traffic side of the police but no real directive or strategy has been formed, they are just using the funds to bust people without paying any real heed to the road toll, driving trends or real saftey issues. LTSA wants results for what they are putting in but hasnt worked out exactly what results exacty, aside for it being "safer" on the road. Police have nothing to do to show for performance other than tickets and pull overs, hence more of them.

I kinda know this this but im not supposed to know this.

**What?** · 10th December 2003, 07:58

I would have thought it quite simple - they want a simple finacial gain. Invest a dollar into the police, the consolidated fund gets a nett return exceeding a dollar.

The insulting thing is that they seem to think that the average Joe can't figure that out.

**ManDownUnder** · 10th December 2003, 08:06

Originally posted by Lou Girardin
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

I hate to say it but the lights and sirens (that would have to be fitted and going at the time of course)... would be enough for the court.

But you are right re conversion. A while ago (10+ years) they had a Mark iV Cortina gitted out with a 5 litre in line 4!. Itt took off like a scared rabbit but had not such a hot top speed... a mate of mine helped build the thing and the flying squad (doies that still exist??) chased won all the boys around the place. I think there was some public debate over whether it was baiting them to speed, therefore questioning the legality of it but that all died down.

Good luck wih the cops... or... stay within the law :-)
MDU