plus look at the hypocritical person that took this photo, whilst driving, thats safe… The police are doing there job, your just head hunting… which is what your against anyway isn’t’ it??

It truly is a thankless job.

I was walking back from a friends place and I knew there were many police in the area tonight, so I decided to do the right thing by not jaywalking and use the crossing at the lights. I pushed the button and waited for my que to cross the road, a police car casually pulled up behind me facing the crossing paralell. Sure enough all of the lights went red. I walked across the crossing, and less than halfway across the police car rev’s forward ans turns left on the red signal without using any lights or sirens and as I was crossing, please share your thoughts on this.

Let’s face, I really dont see anyone on this site backing the cops up, 10 – 15 years ago.. there would be alot more people for the police and their service. Now, it seems that all the police do is pick on people. Now they think they can take your blood, they can go and get f-cked if they think they can take my blood to test, bad enough breathing in some machine.

I have met some genuine coppers, and i have met some as-holes with a huge head. Unfortunatly, the egotistical tools are becoming more and more common. I have sold my Turbo car because i was continously followed around in my area and watched for no reason. I had police units roll up for random defect checks when the car was 20m down my drive way and under the house, yes, thats right… they came down my drive way with out consent and defected the car. I later took the matter into their own hands and took it court and won. Their pigheadedness eventually wore thin and the “law” threw the book back at em! I have gone back to a stock N/A for police reasons and I still get harrased, not so severely though.

I am ashamed at the body who is controlling and dictating the Police force. Good luck, you will need it!

But Michael, to prove that they’d have to present the camera and the original image complete with metadata don’t they?

I don’t understand the level of defensiveness some have with the police, I guess that those with something to hide have something to defend.

Of course they’d give you a fine! P platers can’t even have their passengers talking on phones because apparently they’d freak out and cause a 10 car pile up.

OH MY GOD! I didnt read any more after this…. They confiscated my new car cause I was 24 years old on my P2\’s and it has 307Kw…. I got it back and it had traveled 443KM … Did the judge do anything? No, gave me a bigger fine for “false” accusations even though i took photos of the tires, odometer and petrol gage before I let them take it (someone take your baby you at least wanna know where its going right?)

This was an incident involving 2 police officers and me in the month of MAY that i will share with you about searching my car: And yes the really did do that to me without telling me anything, i was on my way home at 3am from a mates house who lives an hour outer town. The sirens and lights came on, i pulled over immediately as you would normally do, then have a police officer (1) was screaming at u whilst hold his gun in its holster. After opening the door the officer told me to get on the ground still holding his gun in his holster. So i laid on the ground facing my car and i saw him searching my car while his partner (officer 2) was standing over me holding his gun like the first officer did. After about 30 minutes of searching my the 1st officer tried to open the boot of my car. Since my car was a commodore at the time they tried pushing the button in my glove box to open my boot. That same officer kept hitting the Button until i shouted, “you cant open my boot with that button.” So officer 1 took the key out of my ignition and searched my boot and found nothing. He put the keys back into the ignition 10 minutes later and left with his partner doing a u-turn on double white lines. I got up didn’t know either why they wanted to search my car for. But got into my car and left.

Now at the time my car had too many problem like if i would do over 70km my car would cut out completely, and the speed zone on the road was 80km so i wasn’t speeding. but i wasn’t out anywhere except at my mates house that night, so i wasn’t doing burnouts or “hooning” like everyone claims we do. So can anyone with at least half a brain tell me why would i have been put through that for no reason at all? i never did drugs in my life, and never consumed alcohol b4 i drove home that morning. If i remembered the names of those 2 officers i would have taken them to court over this, because that wasn’t legal, inappropriate and abusing police powers.

You have all stated good points about abusing police powers, for example police driving through red lights without sirens or lights flashing, or police setting bad examples for the youth of today. But what can be done about it? nothing, because the police have a badge to hide behind they can even get away with murder if they wanted too. What gives them the right to do this, i blame the badge they carry, its what lets them do what they want when they want, for example; i was sitting at an 4 way intersection controlled by traffic lights. The lights hit green and the tyres screeched as the police vehicle (6 cylinder VZ Commodore) raced through the intersection beating a skyline which wasn’t even trying, at i was doing was the speed limit, whilst the police vehicle was more than 300meters into the distance. i know the skyline was doing the speed limit because i was behind it.

Now tell me, that these new laws and ridiculous restrictions should apply to us again?

So. Get your facts right before trying to start another smear campaign. Cops are assholes when you treat them like assholes. Remember that.”

and talking on ur phone during an emergency behind the wheel wont cause an accident or 2?

maybe u should get ur facts right dude. as we all know, using ur phone while driving is a big distration and is more likely to cause an accident. if police were to go at high speeds in a chase, then pull out their mobile to make a quick office call, thats gonna give u a better chance of a crash!!! police cars have their radios for a reason. quick and easy to use while driving. and if ur going to use the excuse of “oh but u can use a phone if its real important inofrmation that cant go over the airwaves” well wat information could be so bloody important during a casual drive, that she cant use her radio! face it. the only leg this cop has to stand on is that she knows she can get away with it coz of the messed up law.

btw, if cops are speeding in a chase, they must have their sirens on. ive seen cops pull over a cop car for speeding without a siren.

cops are meant to set an example in Australia. i dont care wat the law says, but allowing cops to break the law with a mobile phone is a really bad example for a lot of kids out there

But there is actually no explicit law against taking a photo with a camera (as opposed to a camera phone). So your happy snapper who caught the cop chating away here could claim that the photo was taken on a regular camera and suddenly it’s not illegal…

Now the reality is that when a cop sees you all over the road as you pull your phone out of your pocket, and line him up on your screen, you’ll get done for dangerous driving or one of the other vague ‘we just want to give you a ticket’ fines, and you’ll have little argument in your favour..

We are required to advise our communications centre of at least one phone number in the vehicle at the start of every shift. The phones we carry and use are our own personal phones which are paid for by us. The phones are carried as a secondary mode of communication but due to a dead battery, radio black spot or a technical failure of the radio system they are our only point of cantact. So if we need help in helping you it’s the phone or nothing!

A great deal of what we communicate between units would generally make most everday people (which we are of course!) vomit on the spot! Sometimes these conversations are required to be had on a closed phone network rather than the open Police radio network. The legislation allowing the use of an officers mobile phone whilst driving is there for a bloody good reason. I’m not excusing or justifying the pictured offciers actions BUT and it’s a BIG BUT…….

The next time I get a call on my mobile phone from Police communications asking me to attend someones address to inform them their child is dead after wrapping their car arround a power pole (this sort of job is quite often given direct to the cars via PHONE not radio!) I’ll remember the comments and understanding that has been expressed here in this forum…..Maybe just maybe thats what is being discussed during that call. Maybe he’s just about to tell the parents of another young driver their child is dead.

As for being assholes, the next time I’m writing a mobile phone ticket to a driver that DIDNT SEE THE FLURO COLOURED POLICE CAR FOLLOWING THEM FOR 2Ks I’ll be sure to smile and remember being vomited on by a drunken lunatic at 4am, Punched by a wife beating child abusing moron or bled on by an Iced up junkie who’d have me shoot him and end it all. Grumpy! I wonder why…………

Drive Safely

Big G

So. Get your facts right before trying to start another smear campaign. Cops are assholes when you treat them like assholes. Remember that.

If you show them your recent call list you can disprove this theory…
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