One rule for police

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Na mate - same rules for all.

Plate place and time. Ring the station, get someone senior on the phone and let them know an official complaint is following. Explain you have a natural cynicism about Police enforcing their own but expect this will be followed up.

Have them contact you to confirm what's been done.

There are knobs working in the Police too... not many, but they attract their fair share - as will any industry.

I've had exactly the same happen to me (cop ran a red light - very bad example). One of the guys on here picked it up for me and got back regarding what happened.

No mess, no fuss. Good outcome and no need to make a song and dance of it.

That's my experience anyway

Hay mate that's not any good he was following the cop at the same speed.

[Toaster]

A little knowledge can be dangerous......

I agree... good comments mate.
Toaster.

[scumdog]

http://www.netlaw.co.nz/crime.cfm?PageID=283

If it was after 6pm follow him home and BUST HIS ASS!

You're really a cop aren't you?
And just trying to wind this lot up eh?

[Toaster]

People do tend to speculate - it's natural. I recall a cop I used to work with in Wgtn was on duty one day and he was 'seen' parking on a yellow line outside a bank - pulling out his 'bank book' from his back pocket to go do his banking after having performed an 'illegal' u-turn. The person ranted and raved about it in their complaint (after having recently been caught speeding... oddly enough).

That was responded to by the facts being presented... the constable was responding to an incident where a fraud offender who was presenting stolen cheques was at the bank. So the position he parked in was necessary given the urgency required in order to catch the offender.... his bank book was his note book, and the u-turn was perfectly legal where he did it.

So it pays to know the facts before casting stones. Given the comments above, I'd say it's fair to say we don't know the reasons why the cop was speeding, so lets not pick on the guy - regardless of policy/best practice guidelines (which I admittedly started to point out... noted!).

Another thought.... he may have been making haste to a job like a burglary, so needed to be silent and covert in approach... the light do reflect a great deal and sirens obviously give you away when trying to sneak up on the bad guys. There could have been plenty of reasons.

[scracha]

There are loads of reasons we dont use them such as alerting offenders we are coming, enviromental reasons such as horses going by (though this would be rare), preventing futher injury t

If you passed my horse on the road at 80 never mind 180 I'd be phoning up your boss no matter how "covert" your mission.

[scracha]

What horse are you talking about?

Any. I'm sick of retards passing at warp speed less than a foot from me. I'm talking about nice quiet roads on a sunday with enough space for them to go into the other lane.

Why can't the rozzers clamp down on that?

[Ixion]

Is that the horse that fell over ? It must be unpleasant though to be passed so closely, not to mention the danger of being hit in the face by the horse's tail as it gallops away.

Inconsiderate folk those horse riders, they should allow more room when overtaking motorcycles.

[Rhino]

What's the problem, anyway ? So a cop knocked off a few miles at a decent speed. Considering that the well nigh universal policy on this site is that speed , in itself , isn't dangerous, why the angst when someone in a uniform does it? Sour grapes, maybe, that he can have a better chance of getting away with it ?

Cop running a red light without his siren on, that's maybe a bit different. But they're human too, if he's busy steering the car, talking to comms about what he's going to , maybe he just runs out of hands to flick the siren switch going through an intersection where he can see there's no oncoming traffic.

Lighten up chaps.

Well said Ixion. All coppers are human, and most of the ones I have had dealings with (on or off two wheels) have been ok. That's more than I can say for most of the MOT guys in Canterbury prior to them being absorbed into the Police.

To DT50, Scumdog, Spudchukka, Nodman and any other cops on KB that I have missed; you guys generally do a good job under sometimes very trying circumstances. As with all occupations, the odd bad apple tunrs up, but that should not reflect on all in the job.

[Mrs Busa Pete]

To DT50, Scumdog, Spudchukka, Nodman and any other cops on KB that I have missed; you guys generally do a good job under sometimes very trying circumstances. As with all occupations, the odd bad apple tunrs up, but that should not reflect on all in the job.[/QUOTE]

I'm with rhino on that keep up the good work guys you have.

[S&S]

To DT50, Scumdog, Spudchukka, Nodman and any other cops on KB that I have missed; you guys generally do a good job under sometimes very trying circumstances. As with all occupations, the odd bad apple tunrs up, but that should not reflect on all in the job.

I'm with rhino on that keep up the good work guys you have. [/QUOTE]

Completely agree with ya....

[S&S]

Damned if ya do damned if ya don't

[spudchucka]

To DT50, Scumdog, Spudchukka, Nodman and any other cops on KB that I have missed; you guys generally do a good job under sometimes very trying circumstances. As with all occupations, the odd bad apple tunrs up, but that should not reflect on all in the job.

Couldn't agree more, shame your common sense approach isn't more "common".

[marty]

If you passed my horse on the road at 80 never mind 180 I'd be phoning up your boss no matter how "covert" your mission.

i used to ride past horses every day on kaipaki rd with both the TL and busa, with messrs yoshi and remus chatting away out the back. i always slowed right down if i saw horses, but if they're over the fence and not being ridden, too bad. and i know the stable master, and he would often thank me for slowing. he'd certainly have words to me if i didn't.

however, if you ride your horse on the side of a state highway, then you should expect people to NOT slow down - not everyone was bought up in the country (or in NZ even) and appreciates the good manners of slowing for a horse being ridden.

[scumdog]

To DT50, Scumdog, Spudchukka, Nodman and any other cops on KB that I have missed; you guys generally do a good job under sometimes very trying circumstances. As with all occupations, the odd bad apple tunrs up, but that should not reflect on all in the job.

Thanks for the sentiment, unfortunately while the majority think like you they are not the vocal ones - and I do admit the odd one in our ranks spoils the appearance of the rest of us - ce's la vie....