Can the Police impound your recording equipment or media?

[scumdog]

Explains my day then,went on walkabout with a couple of mates round the golf course,compulsory drams to the last one at each hole,ended up shitfaced,fa%kin cops.

Yup, the bastards will drink you under any chance they get!!

[Nutter34]

Yup, the bastards will drink you under any chance they get!!

And they reckon Air New Zealand has a drinking culture...

But we digress. Interesting point on the camera. What's the story SD?

Could they use video to proscecute? Say for instance a Go-Pro. No date stamp. Could they use anything from any footage from that, even if not on the day in question. Assuming they took it by force, as stated earlier...

There's a case in the States, where guys got done, for wheelies and stunting. The investigation lasted nine months... Videos were on Youtube...

[peasea]

Yup, the bastards will drink you under any chance they get!!

Then make false accusations about your presence at cop parties, cast doubt upon your sexuality and drag you into the shroud of the drug underworld.

[peasea]

Interesting point on the camera. What's the story SD?...

He just wants to be on 'Cops with Cameras', little does he know the NZ Police budget only goes to Cops with Camiras. Quite different.

[marty]

There's a case in the States, where guys got done, for wheelies and stunting. The investigation lasted nine months... Videos were on Youtube...

there was a case in hamilton - stunting - VERY dangerous and silly - videos on youtube.....

[peasea]

there was a case in hamilton - stunting - VERY dangerous and silly - videos on youtube.....

Pretty cool though, you have to admit.

[Nutter34]

Carver... World famous in NZ...

Here's the link to the States story.

http://www.mysouthwestga.com/news/story.aspx?id=453751

[Big Dog]

Err... some people seem to have the wrong idea about my need for a helmet cam...
My intent is not to provide hours of ghost rider style footage. More to capture the behind the bars experience for a real rider on our roads riding within the law.
Capture the morons in cars who can't do the same.

Probably quite happily go video vigilante on the asses of a few driver I saw today if I can't get done because i did 111 on the motorway trying to dodge one of them.

[LBD]

On a recient ride I got stopped and booked twice....not very high speeds just enough to trigger a booking.

Both times I was just hoping the copper would ask to look at the data on the GPS....in particular the maximum 211kph....I would love to have seen their reaction....and then again after a while, when I told them I carried the GPS on a Ruapuna track day.

[breakaway]

I have contemplated mounting a camera on the bike for the next time some fuckwit tries to knock me off, so I have video footage of it. But if I present the same camera footage as evidence, and the cops witness me going 101 km/h, it's all over.

[Scuba_Steve]

Simple answer would be No they can't legally take it.
But then when has the law & legalities ever stopped the police?

You should be safe, & if on the off chance they do try just ask them for the warrant.

[Swoop]

... round the golf course,compulsory drams ...,ended up shitfaced

Golf?

We hope you did not drink and drive...









Drinking and putting is a different matter!

[meteor]

It could be seized as an exhibit if you were arrested, it could be seized as evidence of offending with a warrant, it could be impounded if it was part of your bike and you were nabbed for certain offences then seized as evidence under warrant but then if you're not doing anything wrong there's no problem is there? Oh and warrants of seizure get issued for crimes that you go to jail for... speeding isn't a crime.

[Ronin]

Check this out.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...rbag-data-unit

Hohaia suffered minor injuries. Hohaia told the court he was travelling no faster than 110kmh and braked to between 55kmh and 65kmh around the corner.

A crash investigator told the court the corner could be safely negotiated at 58kmh to 68kmh.

To prove the speed Hohaia was travelling, police sent the Holden's airbag data unit to William Haight, director of the San Diego Collision Safety Institute. Mr Haight told the court via video conference yesterday that 2.5 seconds before the crash Hohaia's Holden was travelling at 150kmh and 0.5 seconds before the crash it was travelling at 98kmh.

[peasea]

It could be seized as an exhibit if you were arrested, it could be seized as evidence of offending with a warrant, it could be impounded if it was part of your bike and you were nabbed for certain offences then seized as evidence under warrant but then if you're not doing anything wrong there's no problem is there? Oh and warrants of seizure get issued for crimes that you go to jail for... speeding isn't a crime.

Tell that to the pork flavoured revenue gatherers.