Cop a load of this!

**scumdog** · 3rd August 2011, 20:06

Originally Posted by imdying

Don't fret about it chaps, scummy will be along soon to roll out the few bad apples speech once again

Bad apple? bad apple AND speeding?

Send him to hell I say!

**oneofsix** · 3rd August 2011, 20:10

Originally Posted by scumdog

You should see how much the lay-about unemployed cost you in legal aid for similar indefensible offences...

Oh, and this topic seems to be yet another KB.

but they don't get to use government provided cars on their holidays.
but hey if we can all pull this scam then it will quickly get too expensive to run the speed ticket scam

**imdying** · 4th August 2011, 09:24

Someone missed the memo...

**Winston001** · 4th August 2011, 09:39

I'm afraid this gentleman made a bad error of judgement. As a senior police officer he has to be whiter than white, held to higher standards than Joe Citizen.

Knowing a TV reporter was on the spot he should have sucked it up and immediately paid the fine. Tough luck if he was following another vehicle - he is required to notify dispatch which he didn't.

Ok, he's entitled to defend the charge like anyone else - except he isn't anyone else.

Furthermore it appears that the investigation isn't finished so he might have been excused. I suspect he was worried about how it would look once TV1 reported so he decided to bite the bullet. Four months late. Poor judgement indeed.

**Indiana_Jones** · 4th August 2011, 09:40

Murder is a crime!..... unless it was done by a policeman!

-Indy

**Banditbandit** · 4th August 2011, 09:45

Originally Posted by scumdog

You should see how much the lay-about unemployed cost you in legal aid for similar indefensible offences...

Oh, and this topic seems to be yet another KB.

Yes - I agree ..

Originally Posted by Winston001

I'm afraid this gentleman made a bad error of judgement. As a senior police officer he has to be whiter than white, held to higher standards than Joe Citizen.

Yes. How many times have we said here - Just pay the fine - and here's a cop doing something wrong - he should "just pay the fine" like everyone else ...

If he'd paid the fine there would probably be no publicity and no criticism here ... sure off duty cops get caught speeding more than we know about .. Cops are human .. they stuff up like this ... just admit it and take the rap .. it's not like it's a crime that's going to cost him his job ...

**Littleman** · 4th August 2011, 11:29

The expectations of people that Police behaviour should be high is just a game for the perennial disgruntled.

They just use it as leverage to be outraged when cops do the wrong thing. Then feign the "oh we expected so much better than that" righteous path.

They pretend to be soooo shocked and angry when clearly they never had those high expectations in the first place.

KB 101 stuff.