Police caught speeding 685 times last year.

[Swoop]

685 - 435 = 250.

Yes, we know that the Police get tickets from their "friends" in the taxation vans...
... but 250?

Updated 8:38AM Tuesday June 19, 2007
By NZPA and Edward Gay

In most cases, police were on their way to emergencies.
Police officers were caught 685 times by speed cameras last year, it was reported today.

Radio New Zealand obtained the figures under the Official Information Act.

However, 435 tickets were waived because they were on their way to emergencies.

Police Association president Greg O'Connor said the story was a media beat-up.

"Police officers do thousands of kilometres a year and they occasionally get caught speeding," Mr O'Connor told nzherald.

He said that if they do not have an excuse and cannot produce evidence that they were heading to an emergency, including showing a job number, they get fined like anyone else.

The National Party's police spokesman, Chester Borrows, said officers were expected to abide by the law in the same way as the public, and their Speed Kills campaign should be backed by their own actions.

[onearmedbandit]

Well, well, I saw a cop texting while driving yesterday. I've already complained to the PCA, the CPA, the CAP, the ACP, and my local vicar. I'm so gunna nail him.

[Swoop]

Well, well, I saw a cop texting while driving yesterday.

Of course YOU would never do such a dangerous thing...

[onearmedbandit]

Never, I mean if I did it would mean that I had to steer with my knee, while balancing a drink between my legs and holding onto a cigarette. Nope not me, I'm a perfect driver...

[sAsLEX]

Never, I mean if I did it would mean that I had to steer with my knee, while balancing a drink between my legs and holding onto a cigarette

And I suppose your going to tell us you do all this with one arm tied behind your back?

[Grub]

Never, I mean if I did it would mean that I had to steer with my knee, while balancing a drink between my legs and holding onto a cigarette. Nope not me, I'm a perfect driver...

How do you put your makeup on then ?

[Goblin]

Well, well, I saw a cop texting while driving yesterday.

My daughter saw a cop picking his nose and eating it while driving.

[imdying]

Of course YOU would never do such a dangerous thing...

There's a video floating around of the first time I took my SV on the road after chopping the exhaust up... it's of a car following me down the road... I wonder who the driver was... OAB, you know who that was??

[onearmedbandit]

And I suppose your going to tell us you do all this with one arm tied behind your back?

Well I don't like to boast but...

How do you put your makeup on then ?

Silly, I do that before I leave home.

My daughter saw a cop picking his nose and eating it while driving.

Ok, that's just wrong.

There's a video floating around of the first time I took my SV on the road after chopping the exhaust up... it's of a car following me down the road... I wonder who the driver was... OAB, you know who that was??

You're not suggesting that I drove a vehicle in the inner city for about 5km with one arm while operating a video camera? Sheesh, imagine if I had driven past some police, say on Fitzgerald Ave. Nope not me, remember I'm a perfect driver, like all other Kiwis.

BTW, before anyone gets upset, I don't text and drive.

[sAsLEX]

You're not suggesting that I drove a vehicle in the inner city for about 5km with one arm while operating a video camera?

lol I think he is alluding to the theme of my post?

[onearmedbandit]

lol I think he is alluding to the theme of my post?

Or maybe this is the video he is talking about?

[Joni]

BTW, before anyone gets upset, I don't text and drive.

I would hope not!

However that would be quite an interesting trick though

[Swoop]

My daughter saw a cop picking his nose and eating it while driving.

Destroying evidence? Bolivian marching powder in the nasal cavity???

[peasea]

685 - 435 = 250.

Yes, we know that the Police get tickets from their "friends" in the taxation vans...
... but 250?

It doesn't seem like a big number to me, I'd hazard a guess heaps are shredded when they see it's a cop car in the frame.

Anywayyyyyy, I was behind a copper on the Shore the other day, Sunset Rd, and I tailed him at 60-65kph for most of the wee jaunt. We all do it, it's just that we have to pay, they don't. It's pretty simple. Media beat up? Sounds more like a perk of the job to me.

[imdying]

Or maybe this is the video he is talking about?

Closed road, no animals were hurt in the making of this film yada yada.