Police working to a quota?? Surely not...

[Pixie]

Why not ask some of the cops on this forum, (who repeatedly offer honest evaluations of current policing issues), how often, in their experience, a simple traffic stop turns into something much bigger instead of just dismissing it as bullshit? I've locked up heaps of burglars and drug dealers as a result of a basic traffic stop and having a nose for sniffing dodgy buggers. Pretty much ever cop in the country would have a story to tell about a simple turnover that resulted in a really good lock up.

So if you weren't doing traffic stops you'd just sit on your arse?

[Pixie]

No, all those things will do is make people feel safer and encourage them to go faster. It's a vicious circle. Remember that the open road speed limit used to be 80 km/h, and (I assume) improvements in vehicle safety (they didn't improve all the roads) led to that being increased to 100.
The only thing that will reduce the road toll is if everyone learns to drive/ride within the limits of their vehicle, the road, the conditions and their abilities.

The speed limit dropped to 80 to save fuel.At the time a cop (MOT) would lecture you on how doing 120 was suicide.Then the limit was raised to 100 and overnight 120 was safe enough to not draw a cop's attention.

[Pixie]

Sweden and a couple of neighbouring countries are INCREASING speed limits due to the safety advances in cars. Yes, that's INCREASING, in some freeways it's up to 130kph.

They must have kicked out the fanatic bureaucrat that's responsible for the draconian speed enforcement in Victoria,NZ and parts of UK...the guy that came up with these policies is a swede,a former speeder,now a born again slow driver

[Finn]

They must have kicked out the fanatic bureaucrat that's responsible for the draconian speed enforcement in Victoria,NZ and parts of UK...the guy that came up with these policies is a swede,a former speeder,now a born again slow driver

Kicked out? Remember what happened to Olof Palme?

[Pixie]

(2)And how do the roads in Sweden compare to ours?
And how tough is their licencing system?


Ya got to compare apples with apples ya know.

Ok so NZ should:
1. make better roads
2. make it harder to get a licence

...to get the road toll down

[Lou Girardin]

Kicked out? Remember what happened to Olof Palme?

Shame that. Left Mrs Palm a widow, with 5 daughters too.

[The_Dover]

Lucky Helen is too fugly to breed and is married to an alleged homosexual.

No orphans in this assasination...

[Finn]

Lucky Helen is too fugly to breed and is married to an alleged homosexual.

No orphans in this assasination...

Actually, Hulen Cluck would have over a million orphans. The beneficiaries that voted for her.

[SPman]

The speed limit dropped to 80 to save fuel.At the time a cop (MOT) would lecture you on how doing 120 was suicide.

I never got lectured - they just laughed when I said I always rode around that speed or more and would tell me to "please slow down a bit" - as they wrote out the ticket!

[Swoop]

Actually, Hulen Cluck would have over a million orphans. The beneficiaries that voted for her.

Heilen Klunc.
South Orcland did her proud.

[spudchucka]

I'm actually going to give you a job in Business Development based on your track record;

1) Work long hours for nothing
2) Consistently exceeding sales targets
3) Ability to collect revenue from customers that don't really want your product
4) Snappy dresser
5) You're resourceful when lacking adequate budget & management
6) Use of brute force - Accounts Receivable

We can work on your abuse of company vehicles.

7) Can recognise a blow hard when he sees one.

[spudchucka]

So if you weren't doing traffic stops you'd just sit on your arse?

Pixie, you are so bitter and anal that I know I'm wasting my words on you but let me tell you when I do traffic work..... I stop vehicles when I see them involved in a traffic offence that warrants speaking to the driver or writing an infringement notice. This usually occurrs in between going from one GDB job to the next one or between the job and returning to the station to complete the pile of paper work required for each matter I deal with.

The only time I ever actively target traffic offences is when I'm 100% up to date on my GDB stuff. This is almost always over my swing shift weekend and over my seven nights of night shift. So out of a five week period I will usually target traffic offenders for one Friday & one Saturday night from 1700 - 0300 hours and for one full week out of the five, while on night shift, I will do about two hours of traffic work each night.

The majority of the tickets that I write over these periods go to mindless twits in boyracer shit mobiles, disqualified drivers and drunk drivers. I write very few speeding tickets and the ones that I do write are in the main for pretty decent speeds that plenty of folk on here have said, "he fucken deserved it" in other threads relating to speeding tickets.

As I've said before, traffic stops are a great tool for police to utilise against the criminal elements. If you genuinely think that we just sit on our arses when not turning over cars then I'm wasting my time communicating with you. Think what you want, I'll just add you to the long list of KB folk who I simply don't give a flying fuck about.

[Finn]

This usually occurrs in between going from one GDBjob to the next

General Duties Blow Job? You really are a company man.

[Finn]

7) Can recognise a blow hard when he sees one.

We don't discriminate. We'll do business with anyone.

[spudchucka]