Cops that break the law

[vinnieh]

I am guessing someone has moaned about this before, but has anyone else noticed that cops seem to break the traffic law as much as anyone else?

I have always noticed cops speeding, running orange lights, not indicating, pulling sudden turns (without their lights on) etc.

This has always pissed me off cause there is basically fxck all you can do about it. I guess moaning about it here won't do much good, but I just think that cops should set a better example. And if they have to drive dangerously for their job, I reckon they should have their lights on. Maybe it is just Hamilton cops, not long ago I was cruising back to Hamilton from Cambridge and there was a cop in front of me. I was doing about 109km/h, but this guys was pulling away from me really quickly, he must have been doing at least 120km/h. Another time I was on the same road and a cop went hauling past me in the other lane, I was doing about 100 then so I accelerated up to about 115 to keep up with him, hoping he would pull me up so I could have words with him but he speed up more and I was too scared to go any faster haha.

But anyway, has anyone else noticed cops behaving badly on the road or had bad experiences with cops and their driving? It makes it soo much harder to pay a ticket when you know the same guys that give you the ticket do the same thing you do.

[bully]

yip, iv noticed too, speeding on the motorway(no lights) blown head lights, even seen one parked on the street with no rego.
what can ya do, people say oh theres allways a few bad ones, but id say theres only a few good ones

[98tls]

Heres an idea for ya,walk away from the puter and get a life,fuck me nothing better to do than whinge about cops driving.

[nodrog:Me]

i dont fuckin believe it .............. a nifty 50 that does 115kph!

[98tls]

yip, iv noticed too, speeding on the motorway(no lights) blown head lights, even seen one parked on the street with no rego

"oh the humanity"

[Murray]

Maybe the speedo's stuffed and the cops were doing the limit?????

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

The more people complain the better off you'll be... Nothing may happen at first glance... but if everyone complains at every little thing that cops do wrong on the road... you may find that they become a little more leaneant when they pull you over for not indicating...

The thing is people don't like to complain... because the believe nothing happens... when one person complains probably nothing but when every road user complains and cloggs there telephone boards something may happen...

But there is no point complaining on here about it as most of us will say... at the end of the day they are only human and most cops do a great job...

[mstriumph]

if i see one riding a dirty bike i will comment on it ...... after all, my tax money bought it, LEAST he can do is keep it clean

[nodrog:Me]

oh how i chortle!

[BOGAR]

Be careful speeding up as s/he will still give you a ticket for speeding . (I was quietly listening to a cop explain how he managed to do this to someone else once). Apart from that I treat them like any other motorist, a careful eye and a wide berth . But I think they are the same all around the country. Still they do a good job and I have had my faith restored by only getting a warning ( I was not being too bad) instead of a ticket.

[Duke girl]

Love the humour mstriumph. Regardless of what the cops do on our roads and whether they set an example or not the bottom line is they do it and get away with it and who is going to do something about it, is what i would like to know?. . We can complain about them all we like but I would hate to live in this world without them and wouldnt like to be doing their job at all with some of the situations they have to attend to in their duty as police officers. I know some of you will be saying well thats what they get paid for and thats the proffession they have choosen to persue but without them this world we live in would be 1 hell of a rat race.

[Ixion]

Why should I want to complain about a cop speeding? I do it whenever I think I can do so safely, I would be a hypocrite to complain of someone else doing it.

[firefighter]

there was a cop in front of me. I was doing about 109km/h, but this guys was pulling away from me really quickly, he must have been doing at least 120km/h.

maybe he needed to be speeding but didn't want to scare/intimidate/distract others on the open road coming in the other direction- I think you'll find there's a reason for it, yes they don't indicate sometimes, yes the odd headlight is out etc, but these things probably happened during the course of the day/night, on their shift, it's not their personal vehicle, it's a government vehicle, so if it doen't have a rego- well, it is a fact that it will be paid and the government will get it's money.....and i'm sure the blown lights etc will be sorted as soon as practical.....yes it's not really all that fair that they can get away with it, BUT there's a reason for it.

[MSTRS:Me]

I'm of two minds about this. How do you know that the cop doing 120 'for no reason' isn't one of those that will just give you the shake of a finger when seeing you do that? They do exist.
A while back, north of Tirau (or Tokoroa), there is endless k/s of double yellows. Here is me in my Commode 4 or 5 back in the queue doing fecking 80k stuck for ages. Aha!! Finally. A passing lane. Yep..lead vehicle speeds up...others pass at fuckall ks faster...the lane is getting wasted...I get a clear road so down goes the foot...115...120...130...140...past...pull in and slow down about 100m from merge point. Purple Commode goes past me with a cheery wave. Yep...he was a mufti. No lights. No hassles. *Phew*
Similar circumstances...quite a few years ago...YT got done - 120. Different part of the country - different cop.
It's the inconsistency that irritates me.

[Patrick]

maybe he needed to be speeding but didn't want to scare/intimidate/distract others on the open road coming in the other direction- I think you'll find there's a reason for it, yes they don't indicate sometimes, yes the odd headlight is out etc, but these things probably happened during the course of the day/night, on their shift, it's not their personal vehicle, it's a government vehicle, so if it doen't have a rego- well, it is a fact that it will be paid and the government will get it's money.....and i'm sure the blown lights etc will be sorted as soon as practical.....yes it's not really all that fair that they can get away with it, BUT there's a reason for it.

Faults are detected daily and get repaired usually that next morning. These cars are driven 24/7. Things break down. Blown headlights can be OK one moment and gone the next... shit happens. All of the ones I know of who get ticketed for blown headlights knew about the problem days, weeks and even months ago.

No excuses for the failure to indicate though, that is just pure lazy shite driving...

As for no lights or siren, could be the burglars doing a break just around the corner they are on their way to and they don't want to scare em off with the noise of their pending arrival perhaps? Remember the fault suddenly appearing... the light bars crap out occasionally without warning too....

There is a whole lot going on in a patrol car when a job comes in. What are you going to do, how to get there, the best way to approach, where to park, who will do what, who will say what, what are we heading in to, what is going on, who are we looking for, what are we looking for, where are the backup units heading to, just to name a few.... Should we be leading by example? Sure... sometimes fuckups are made. Shit happens. We get speeding tickets / speed camera tickets / driving complaints too you know.....

Don't sweat the minor stuff.... they are trying to make it safe for you and yours....

Complain if you want about the little stuff - that shows the typical support we get out there.....