46,000 speeding tickets in year for central North Island

[spudchucka]

The Karapiro and Tokoroa-Taupo stretches of SH 1 are well known hotspots but the cops who are supposed to be on the Desert Road to shut it in case of the predicted lahar are especially attentive to motorists. Helps to relieve the boredom I suppose

Its their directive, as long as the mountain isn't doing its thing they are required to be on the highway doing that thing.

[spudchucka]

I am not aware of any law that empowers a police officer to demand to take your photograph, unless you have been arrested. And obviously, the arrest can't be for not having your photo taken.

And when arrested the arresting officer must say why. (I think. I'm not absolutely certain of that. But certainly somewhere along the process you must be told why you are under arrest)

The arrest would most likely have been for providing false details under the LTA.

Mr Crazy didn't have his photo licence on him, (he received a ticket for this offence). The cop wanted his photo as conformation of his identity.

The cop only needs to form good cause to suspect that he has committed an offence in order to arrest him. At the roadside there is no sure way of telling who a person is without photographic ID and if the person is behaving in a manner that leads you to believe that they aren't who they say they are then you are justified in arresting them.

He should be told what he is being arrested for and given his rights, (although I'm sure Mr Crazy knows them quite well anyway).

I'd pick that he would have been released without charge once his details had been confirmed by fingerprints at the cop shop, (providing his actual details were the same as those given at the roadside).

Providing false details can be dealt with by either an infringement notice for $700 or issuing a traffic offence notice and sending the person off to court.

[scumdog]

Two weeks ago I was stopped for doin 112kph in a 100kph area..

Fined $80 for doin 12kph over...Fined $55 for not having my licence on me...

Then arrested for not allowing the Police Officer to take a photo of me with his Digital Camera on the side of the road..(Because I didn't have any ID)

Taken back to the station...Thumb printed!!!!

Then released and made to walk back to my Car which took 3hours..

Crazy Steve..

Ticket arrived in the Mail two days later...

Hmmm, one or the other of those parties involved you must have been a bit of an arsehole......

[Lou Girardin]

He got un-arrested, I've seen that a few times

[Lou Girardin]

Its their directive, as long as the mountain isn't doing its thing they are required to be on the highway doing that thing.

Ya gotta pay your way in this brave new world, eh Spud?

[Edbear]

yes, i do occassionally get ticketed but i have to have been doing something pretty darn silly to get one[/SIZE][/I][/B]

You mean to tell us you do something pretty darn silly occasionally?

[Skyryder]

Nearly a repost but from a different source. The Stuff link no longer responds.

This from Scoop

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0612/S00268.htm

Skyryder

[ceebie13]

I'm waiting for the first sanctimonious post telling us to stop whingeing and pay the fine if we do the crime. (This isn't it by the way).

Come on....we know you are out there! lol

[RC1]

got off two this last month one for doing 183kph in a 100 zone and just last week for doing 125kph in a 100 zone

[scumdog]

got off two this last month one for doing 183kph in a 100 zone and just last week for doing 125kph in a 100 zone

Typical!

Ya can't trust cops to be cinsistant eh?

One minute ya get a ticket for 112kph and the next they let you off for 180kph.

[spudchucka]

Ya gotta pay your way in this brave new world, eh Spud?

They get plenty of volunteers for it because they pay you about $90.00 extra a day in allowances.

[Timetogo]

If there was an average of 26,000 tickets across 12 regions in ONE year thats 312,000 tickets. Assuming that 3/4 of NZ's population drives that means that at least 10% of the population are breaking that particular law EVERY year, perhaps there's something wrong with the law...........

[Clivoris]

got off two this last month one for doing 183kph in a 100 zone and just last week for doing 125kph in a 100 zone

You lucky lucky bastard.

[Patrick]

The Karapiro and Tokoroa-Taupo stretches of SH 1 are well known hotspots but the cops who are supposed to be on the Desert Road to shut it in case of the predicted lahar are especially attentive to motorists. Helps to relieve the boredom I suppose

Yep... well known alright... but still they keep a-comin...

Not too many Lahars occurring at present, so gotta do something to justify the expenses claimed...

[bell]

If there was an average of 26,000 tickets across 12 regions in ONE year thats 312,000 tickets. Assuming that 3/4 of NZ's population drives that means that at least 10% of the population are breaking that particular law EVERY year, perhaps there's something wrong with the law...........

Hmmm, different sort of logic apparent in that post. Your suggestion/s re changes to the said law? Be keen to hear them. It'll be interesting to hear you justify how speeding can be made "safer" so as to offset the inevitable increase in fuck-ups by the 10% of NZ's driving population who so grossly overestimate their driving abilities every time they put the key into the ignition.