Police warnings - any consequences?

[Winston001]

Or the cop that has you stopped calls Comms to see what happened when the last cop stopped you.

May not apply in the cities but it happens a lot down here.

Makes a bit of an influence on whether a ticket is issued or not.

Ooohhhh that's NAUGHTY. Bad cops. Say it isn't so.



Hmmm Privacy Act, Bill Of Rights....I feel a civil action coming on....

[scumdog]

Ooohhhh that's NAUGHTY. Bad cops. Say it isn't so.



Hmmm Privacy Act, Bill Of Rights....I feel a civil action coming on....

"Hey XX, I see you stopped YY last night, what was he like, was he OK?"

"Yeah, good as gold, drives fairly sensibly even if he looks a bit rough"

OR

"Hey XX, I see you stopped ZZ last night, what was he like, was he OK?"

"Nah, a mouthy little prick, takes no notice of warnings, reckons we can't touch him for anything and we get calls about him hooning and speeding around town all the time"

Guess who is going to drive off happier??

[Ixion]

Privacy Act is fine, special clauses dealing with "for purposes of law enforcement". And I don't see any BoR issues. Cop calls up "I've stopped Dr Rossi. Understand a few others have also, whats the deal ". Don't see any issues with that.

[spudchucka]

I'm a bit of a scanner hobbyist (OK, geek) and frequently you'll hear an officer call in someone's rego and the the dispatcher will say "Previously Queried" about the vehicle, even if there are no fines or citations or points against it.

So yes, all warnings are recorded. I've also heard them run regos without pulling the vehicle over - also recorded.

When they say previously queried it just means that the vehicles rego has been checked on the computer system on prior occasions, it doesn't necessarily mean that there are warnings of any sort attached to it.

However, a person's ID or a vehicle rego can have warning flags attached to it, (person is known to carry knives for instance) or can have intelligence notings recorded against them, which would normally be how warnings are formally recorded, (other than in the 1950's style notebook).

[Winston001]

Oh Ixion, why do you fellow travellers have to be so contrary. Here we have the forces of the state colluding at gathering private information about innocent citizens. Its enough to make a liberal......I dunno......vote Labour!!

[Winston001]

"Hey XX, I see you stopped YY last night, what was he like, was he OK?"

"Yeah, good as gold, drives fairly sensibly even if he looks a bit rough"

OR

"Hey XX, I see you stopped ZZ last night, what was he like, was he OK?"

"Nah, a mouthy little prick, takes no notice of warnings, reckons we can't touch him for anything and we get calls about him hooning and speeding around town all the time"

Guess who is going to drive off happier??

Sheesh, surely you can write some of that stuff down - or maybe coms record it?? Otherwise my plans for getting into the NZ Law Journal are shot....

[Ixion]

Oh Ixion, why do you fellow travellers have to be so contrary. Here we have the forces of the state colluding at gathering private information about innocent citizens. Its enough to make a liberal......I dunno......vote Labour!!

'Snot private information. If Chummy has come (legitimately and legaly) to the attention of the police, they are entitled to share that information within the force.Police have a statutory duty to maintain the law, advice ot officer son previous police activities is part of that duty. And they ain't colluding , it's one department. 'N they don't know he's innocent until they check him out, do they. Different matter if I or you were to call up and ask for info on Chummy. That would be illegal.

[Speedracer]

if the guy you pull over is not in the smart guy/arsehole catergory but has demerits does that mean instant ticket..?

[scumdog]

if the guy you pull over is not in the smart guy/arsehole catergory but has demerits does that mean instant ticket..?

At times it CAN make a difference.
Somebody doing 118kmh who has 95 demerits obvioulsy doesn't get the hint....

[Grub]

Here we have the forces of the state colluding at gathering private information about innocent citizens.!!

Nice try but innocent citizens don't get traffic stops.

Oh and BTW, Labour wants more info on you than anyone else cause they want to run your life for you

[firefighter]

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[firefighter]

Nice try but innocent citizens don't get traffic stops.

Oh and BTW, Laour wants more info on you than anyone else cause they want to run your life for you

yeah they do I was pulled over as routine check last week, wasn't doing anything wrong- speeding etc, it was a saturday night so I guess just making sure I was sober etc, no probs with that, just doing his job.Was a friendly enough fulla, a bit scary to think that it maybe taken the wrong way if I get pulled over another time for something minor though! (being now I know that it would have been recorded.....!)

is it recorded as a routine stop or what?

[Grub]

is it recorded as a routine stop or what?

Depends on the circumstances but the stop usually includes them calling your reg which gives them make, model, year, colour, and currency of reg & warrant. You must be a nasty suspicious looking character, must be the mustache. Oh it might also have been between 1am and 4am - everyone out at that time is regarded as up to no good or pissed or both ... or of course, a shift worker.

If it's at a checkpoint, I don't believe any of that is recorded .... just speak into the lil breath tester

[awayatc]

Always thought police works FOR society I belong to......
and AGAINST those who don't abide it's laws....

Nothing wrong with that....

Apart from the odd anal retentive police individual of course.....

[SPman]

Nice try but innocent citizens don't get traffic stops.

Oh and BTW, Labour wants more info on you than anyone else cause they want to run your life for you

There are NO innocent citizens!

You are born, therefore you are guilty!

Labour doesn't want to run your life for you any more than any other totalitarian oligarchy - like - the UK, the USA, etc etc. It just wants the info.