Unmarked car on M8 in Glasgow
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mik_ok
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Yup - it's a 530d estate ~ followed me in the S2 a month or so back down the M8 blochairn slip heading for the M80. Two interior mirrors and a camera in the top middle of the screen too. Luckily there was a queue, so I had time to gaze in my mirror and spot the signs..... otherwise I would have "enjoyed" the slip-road like I normally do.... [
]Saw it tonight having stopped someone heading eastbound.
ORIGINAL: John H
Good to see our boys in blue spending lots of our money on expensive German luxury cars, solely for the purpose of catching such hardened crimals as us.
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it's a massive lease deal John, they lease them direct from BMW or Merc etc at a very cheap rate and the cars are returned to the company after a certain period of time/milage etc. It is actually a cheaper deal for the tax payer as they used to buy them outright and run em for years and get nothing in return. They also save money as part of the deal is that the manufactrer covers the cost of service and parts which did in the past come out of the police budget. For once it is actually a saving overall. The downside is that they are able to change the cars on a more regular basis which is a distinct disadvantage to the general public.
John H
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ORIGINAL: kivne
ORIGINAL: John H
Good to see our boys in blue spending lots of our money on expensive German luxury cars, solely for the purpose of catching such hardened crimals as us.
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it's a massive lease deal John, they lease them direct from BMW or Merc ...
Kenny,
I don't doubt they get them cheap, I was more venting my spleen about the general level of spending on anti-speeding (or should that be anti motorist). There seems to be a national obsession about policing the motorist, out of all proportion to the benefit to be gained.
I reckon its cos we are an easy touch. After all, catch someone speeding and prosecute them, and in statistical terms you have detected a crime, and resolved it, just what every chief constable wants for his annual report. Catching and prosectuting a thousand speeders is a lot easier than catching a thousand muggers, or house breakers, so it is a great way of statistically proving that you are beating crime.
Who me? a cynic?
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]I agree totally John with your sentiment regarding the motorist being an easy option. Here is another interesting fact, and I am the first to admit that the Traffic Department at times deserve their poor reputation, quite franky some of the department I came into contact with were shocking examples of what to my mind typifies a good policeman ( ie locking up scummys ) however there was one Cheif Constable down south who disbanded his whole force of CID after it was proven that for the previous 3 years his traffic department was responsible for catching more burglars and theives etc than his whole force of detectives put together. Mainly through night time traffic stops. They do do a lot of that work that goes unnoticed. It's the fookin scameras and like that need shooting.
John H
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Kenny,
In my professional experience with "ra polis" I have found both good and bad, as you might expect, and I don't envy the traffic boys the gruesome bits of picking up dead bodies that they have to do either. I wish some of them behaved a bit less like nazis mind you when they stop you.
No, my beef is with a narrow band of senior police management, and the local and national politicians to whom they report (or are in cahoots with, delete as you please). Their sole aim in life is to prove to the world what a fantastic job they are doing, and they will use whatever means they can to manipulate the facts to prove it. And I speak as a former insider, as I spent much of my previous career doing precisely that, so I know how the system works.
Of course I reserve my real bile for the unelected, tofu eating, self satisfied, unaccountable, evangelical health and safety "experts" who prop up this campaign of hatred against motorists ... but that's a rant for another day.
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In my professional experience with "ra polis" I have found both good and bad, as you might expect, and I don't envy the traffic boys the gruesome bits of picking up dead bodies that they have to do either. I wish some of them behaved a bit less like nazis mind you when they stop you.
No, my beef is with a narrow band of senior police management, and the local and national politicians to whom they report (or are in cahoots with, delete as you please). Their sole aim in life is to prove to the world what a fantastic job they are doing, and they will use whatever means they can to manipulate the facts to prove it. And I speak as a former insider, as I spent much of my previous career doing precisely that, so I know how the system works.
Of course I reserve my real bile for the unelected, tofu eating, self satisfied, unaccountable, evangelical health and safety "experts" who prop up this campaign of hatred against motorists ... but that's a rant for another day.
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