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The more the merrier - hopefully get rid of a few of the lunatic drivers.
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Amen to that.
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Silver 'original shape' Audi A4 in Buckingham, on an S plate.
Very neat camera installation in the front bumper, leaving nothing on the dash or hanging from the interior roof to draw attention. No extra whip aerial, either.
I only spotted it because I was stationery for a few seconds on my motorbike outside the police station.
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When I was in Weymouth town centre this summer I saw a young guy in an inoffensive looking (and sounding) MR2 pulled up by a couple of bobbies in an unmarked BMW 5 series. I don't know the rights and wrongs of what the guy was doing (and he certainly couldn't have been speeding) but it seems to me Dorset Police ought to have something better to spend their money on - and I say that as a former employee...
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it seems to me Dorset Police ought to have something better to spend their money on - and I say that as a former employee...
Burglar?
Driving off without paying for petrol?
No valid tax disk?
Drove through a red light 30 seconds previously?
Could be anything.
Dorset police were probably spending tax payer's money quite sensibly.
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How do you balance;
>I don't know the rights and wrongs of what the guy was doing
with;
>Police ought to have something better to spend their money on
I'd rather there was loads more of them stopping loads more cars - or are you more of a supported of cameras than police activity ?
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>I don't know the rights and wrongs of what the guy was doing
He was driving a sports car for a start.
The job could have been done at least as well by a properly marked traffic car, and you can have as many of them as you like; they do some good.
The rest real motorists hate as manifestations of anti-motoring crankery - and to save upset please note that the subject is CARS.
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Very difficult for anyone to comment on this as the whole story isn't known.
Completely disagree with your statement about a properly marked traffic car, since they made speed cameras high-viz, we generally slow down because we see them in time, if conditions permit we then resume our previous speed.
Same thing with marked police cars, no-one who values their licence is going to be a prat in sight of a marked police car, but if 1% of the egits who drive with no consideration for other drivers are pulled by an unmarked police car then bring it on.
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Dept for Transport wants to change driver behaviour with regard to speed. Which is most effective:-
Marked Cars
Unmarked Cars
Hi-Vis Cameras
Concealed Cameras
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"Dept for Transport wants to change driver behaviour with regard to speed."
I want to change driver behaviour with respect to cutting out atrociously dangerous driving. Which is most effective? Marked or unmarked?
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Which is most effective:- Marked Cars // Unmarked Cars // Hi-Vis Cameras // Concealed Cameras
Surely the answer has to be combination of all these methods, the balance depending on circumstances?
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"Dorset Police ought to have something better to spend their money on"
Car stolen, perhaps?
Reported in a crime?
Driver wanted?
etc, etc.
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"Dorset Police ought to have something better to spend their money on"
Perhaps the original poster of that comment meant "than a BMW 5 series"
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and I say that as a former employee...
Perhaps that should have read "and I say that as a former disgruntled employee..."
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A university friend's father was a bigwig with Hampshire Constabulary, who are big users of BMWs, they used to get cars with bodywork quality control failures at a hefty discount.
The thing that I was pondering recently was why Police forces don't buy some of the large cheap cars from people like Kia or Hyundai. Either they aren't up to the rough'n'tumble of people work or the total cost of ownership is no better than a Volvo or Bimmer dispite their low sticker price.
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Our BMW 530D Touring cost the force £14000 new. The manufacturers give them to the job, it's good PR. Resale value is much better than an Omega, hence you are getting better value the money you put in.
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> > Our BMW 530D Touring cost the force £14000 new.
Reminds me of the case some years back when I purchased my father's ex-BT Sierra GL 2.0 DOHC company car. I paid about four grand at three years old with about 25,000 miles under the wheels for a car that I knew well (including for five flat out laps round the 13 mile Nordschleif, ahem) and had cleaned and polished often.
Bargain.
I then found out that it was one of a batch of several thousand that BT had ordered in one hit, and paid new for each only a little more than I had just paid at three years old!
If accurate, then just as I was happy to get good value motoring, then equally so should BT be!
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