Senior police officer caught speeding twice by same camera

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By Brett Davis | July 13th, 2011

A senior police officer in Western Australia has been caught by a multanova speed camera exceeding the speed limit twice on the same strip of road while on the job. Investigations are now underway to try to determine if the speeds were warranted given the jobs he was attending to.

The officer was allegedly caught doing 125km/h in an 80km/h zone by a multanova device, and then again doing 134km/h by the same device in the same 80km/h zone. The officer then notified his superiors as to what had happened.

Acting Commander for Regional WA, Lawrence Panaia, said the officer has done the right thing by notifying higher authorities. Panaia said in a recent ABC report,

“This has bypassed what you would call the normal process in that if you had driven through a multanova at that speed you would still be waiting for your ticket.

“The reason it has been so quick is that the officer declares that this is what happened so we have commenced the investigation straight away.”

It’s unknown what kind of job the officer was attending to during the incident, which occurred about two weeks ago, but according to reports, the officer self-assigned the job and its priority. The officer was also travelling alone and did not call the job in.

Authorities will be investigating if the speeds were too fast for the circumstances. Police have said officers need to gauge their own speed to the job at hand, accordingly.

The police officer’s sirens and lights were on at the time.

ST

Goes to show cameras do nothing to reprimand offenders there and then who may then continue to be a danger to the motoring public at such an excessive speed.
UnderBrakes

Will make up a B/S story and he will get off with just a warning

F1MotoGP

I did not get a warning i got a fine because I was 3km/h over and this is my first ever fine!!! I should get just a warning because is my first but because it is a revenue raising I need to pay. Nothing to do with saving life.

TJ

I am not sure where you are but in Victoria if its your first offense you can try your luck by sending an apology letter stating its your first offense and blah blah and you might get off with a warning.
Its worth a try rather than coping demerit points and over $100 in fine.

angry

this is just one isolated case i cant count the amount of times i have seen police putting sirens on to get through a red light only to turn their lights of 100m down the road, and who polices the police the police, nothing will happen to this officer but a little slap on the rist.

yet another case of police negligence

nickdl

They do that so they don’t disturb residents and other drivers in the area. Why have flashing lights and sirens on when there’s no one ahead to alert?

http://www.formalcars.com.au Tony

Well as far as I am aware if the lights and sirens are on they are allowed to speed. If they are not they accept the ticket as per usual regardless whether being on the job or not. I certainly know thats how it works in Victoria
schultzy

“It’s unknown what kind of job the officer was attending to during the incident…”.

The lil’ porker was on a “Macca’s Run” for the “boys” & had just 2 minutes to get to the Drive Thru to order his Double Bacon burgers!

Angry’s right – I have also often seen Police put on “Blues & Two’s” just to get somewhere a few seconds faster.So, yes, we know they can “self assign a job & it’s priority”.

P.S. I wonder if he got to the Drive Thru on time, after all that! …and what his Happy Meal toy animal was!
davie

Maybe the cop was in a hurry as his donuts were getting cold
TJ

Last week I was in my car at a red light in a right turning lane with around 15 cars in front of me. the lane on my left hand side was empty as it was not turning and going straight.
this cop car rolls down the left lane with no sirens or lights on and stops as its a red light. As soon as the right turning light turns green, they turn their siren and lights on and turns right and then turn them off again and this is in Ringwood Victoria.

Lights or no lights the cops break traffic laws much more often and don’t get charged.
angry

the police of to day care only about making money.
eg when i was in high school several students found it funny to egg my car as well as damaging it. now i knew who it was they knew who it was but did nothing. but when it comes to the road they will do anything to fine anybody.

police are muppets who dont think for them selfs but are told how to think

Bloody muppets
Noel

LMAO – “the office didn’t call the job in”, that’s because there was no job.

If this guy had his siren and lights on then maybe, I doubt he did though so he should feel the full force of the law.
Jo Smith

HOON
ze scheister

its coincidental that this was reported just after the wa cops put a damper on their revenue raising operations by parking next to speed cameras with lights on. surely stuff like this happened all the time in the past but i never read about it in the news. looks like the camera cash cows are no longer in cahoots with the fuzz
Phil

The policeman in the photo has a very wide waistline. No wonder he needs a “multinova” camera to catch anyone.
Troy

That is classed as being a hoon. The police car should be seized for 28 days.

angry

good idear
try telling that to the tree huging police loving leftists as far as i know police are humans and humans make mistakes and so do police but they consider them selfs as higher beings and above the law
if they are that concerned about road safty why not just have a look at how we hand out licences like lollies
there should be driver training requiament any monkey can pass a test but can they drive

Lawrence Tay

I was travelling 96km/h in rural area 100km/h zone, not realising there was this 200m distance of 80km/h zone and still driving the same speed through. Of course you guess it a cop was hiding behind that mere 200m area to catch those people like me…
And its a Sunday too!!! Yeah I know you’re really hard-working!!! To make the road “safer”..
What the heck!!!
Captain Nemo

“It’s unknown what kind of job the officer was attending to during the incident, which occurred about two weeks ago, but according to reports, the officer self-assigned the job and its priority. The officer was also travelling alone and did not call the job in”…..Yeah right it was 10:28 and the Breakfast menu at Maccas was about to finish.
Powerhungry

It does say at the end of the article that the “The police officer’s sirens and lights were on at the time”.

Maybe his mistake was to report in that he had been caught, as I had assumed that all photos of emergency vehicles would get automatically tossed straight to the bin.

It would take up a fair bit of time to check out if every photo of a police car was related to a legitimate job. Plus they could better use that time sending out infringement notices to the general publc…far more cost-effective!
It’s all in the detail

Road safety act exempts police officers from the road rules whilst on duty, they do not have to put lights and sirens in before breaking road rules. Quite often they will put lights and sirens on to get through intersection and then turn them off again, they do this as not to alert the criminals they are coming.

Not everything is what it seems, don’t make comments when none if us know what police are doing when we observe them. A 5 second observation dies nit afford you the right to rubbish hard working people!!
bob

let the cops do their job. this is a waste of space talking about.you’re all picking away because you have nothing better to say.
save it for the track

The officer himself notified his superiors, and he had lights and sirens on. There could be any number of reasons for him doing that and there not being a ‘job’ in the system. Regardless of statutory laws that exempt Police and emergency vehicles from road rules in certain circumstances, there are still administrative mechanisms in place for various activities, including speed camera activations.
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Angry. Unfortunately often a victim can know who an offender was, as can Police, but without evidence and independent witnesses, charges and action are not always able to be undertaken.
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powerhungry. Most photo’s of emergency vehicles with lights/sirens going through cameras are ‘culled’, however there are administrative procedures in place (likely in all states) that determine certain speeds where questions MAY be asked. More time off the road for frontline Police to do a report to answer a question which is often very easily answered or checked upon by way of examination of various electronic tracking or radio calls, and other systems. Let’s just hope that the outcome (good or bad) is reported upon as well as this initial report.
Shak

I dont see the wrong committed here. He had his lights and sirens on, so he was trying to warn traffic, and if he was attending to a job then he should be allowed to speed. He also warned his superiors so he was pretty honest about it.
nickdl

Maybe it is slightly hypocritical to be exceeding the speed limit by that much, but if I called 000 I’d want the police to get there FAST.
Car Fanatic

CA seriously, this story is a week old.

And for all the cop haters out there, I hope the day comes when you desperately need a cop and they don’t show up. Then you can truly bitch about them.

Suck it up Princesses.

Thrillhouse

CA seriously, this story is a weak.

*Fixed

Peter Stone

It looks like that equipment is going to fire a rocket at offending cars!
Flying High

So there is such a thing as ‘safe speeding’ after all…