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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Funnily enough, I live in Yorkshire, and I know quite a few officers from various forces (Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford -including an Inspector in the Internal Investigations area), and I have to disagree with you on that statement - then again, I try not to making sweeping generalisations about any group of people.
I am sure there are, as in any profession, a number who do not live up to the high standards expected - that doesn't (imho) mean all, or the majority, don't maintain those standards.
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trev, if they had to obey the speed limits, how would they catch speeders? btw, they can be prosecuted for dangerous driving.
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They do have to obey the speed limits if they are not on an emergency call though.
A number of years ago in my town they placed a mobile camera van on a section of dual carraigeway with a 50mph limit. They were at first boasting and patting themselves on the back claiming how the number of speeders they had caught in the first week of using the mobile camera at that location would net £50k.
The red faced chief constable within a few weeks was having to answer why a number of police cars without flashing lights and not on emergency calls, during that week had been exceeding the speed limit. To further add to that about 13 incidents occured where officers had not signed the car out, and the red faced chief was apologising that his officers were less than honest and indicating that they should do the right thing and step forward.
Yeah right they would.
Of course we also have the coppers in our area who were suspended for using police cars to go to the seaside at Weston during their working shift. They only got caught because the car broke down on that occassion, and it then came out that it had been a frequent occurance for a gang of coppers. (I think they were named the Seaside gang by other officers who knew of it)