Future roads policing article... - codefarm
.... is here

www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15/vehicle_movement_.../

Future roads policing article... - martint123
I read that and shivered.
Future roads policing article... - codefarm
Why's that, Martin? Do you have something to hide?!
Future roads policing article... - R75
Scares the living daylights out of me, Not a single government computer system/database has ever been fully working, no reason to think this one will be any different!!! Welcome to 1984!!!
Future roads policing article... - mss1tw
Where did I put those emigration forms...
Future roads policing article... - Adam {P}
North Korea sounds like a good alternative.
Future roads policing article... - v8man
The Blair police state has arrived.
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\"Nothing less than 8 cylinders will do\"
Future roads policing article... - martint123
Codefarm - I've got nothing to hide - under the present laws of the land.
However, over the years I have been to many countries that weren't as "free" as ours and their control and monitoring of their populations now seems worrying similar to what is happening over here. We used to laugh at the men in leather overcoats who used to keep an eye on western visitors, this seems like nothing now, compared to around 400 council run tv cameras in a smallish city like Hull. this excludes any speed or traffic light cameras. How many new laws are brought in each year to control us?... Yup, time to learn Spanish I think.
Future roads policing article... - codefarm
Martin: My comment was intended ironically!
Future roads policing article... - tunacat
As the article says,
"Dealing with the large numbers of entirely unregistered and uninsured vehicles will require real-time alerts and pursuit, and these vehicles will have to be differentiated from the many foreign registered cars on the UK's roads. As it will be a lot easier and cheaper to fine the law-abiding but forgetful than it will be to deal with the hardline serial offenders, we think we can guess which way this one will go."

...I think I'll just attach some plates which make my car appear to come from another RHD country, Malta say.

Future roads policing article... - J Bonington Jagworth
"if you haven't done anything wrong you've nothing to fear."

Of course. Like the lady on the radio today, who fessed up to a speeding ticket she got a year ago, but heard nothing more until she was arrested in Aberdeen. after a vehicle check. She was banged up and her home force (Humberside) sent to collect her, which they did a day later. All charges were dropped once she appeared in court...

Now what was George Orwell's real name again?
Future roads policing article... - Fullchat
In the local news it did state the original offence was for alledgedly doing 100mph and was arrested after she got stopped for speeding again in Scotland.

Now what does that tell you?

She heard nothing more because she moved. Surely there should have been some responsibility on her behalf. Did she just think it would go away?

Drove off in a nice X5 though.

Love to know why the Magistrates kicked it out.


Fullchat
Future roads policing article... - J Bonington Jagworth
"She heard nothing more because she moved"

And she was having her mail forwarded. The original documents were returned to the police, for some reason, and they did nothing about it. Doesn't say an awful lot for their powers of detection...

I imagine that even a magistrate would recognise the inequity of being detained overnight in the cells for an administrative error by the police!

FWIW, the fastest police response I have ever encountered was when I accidentally drove away from Safeway without paying for my petrol. Two policemen were at my house within ten minutes!
Future roads policing article... - J Bonington Jagworth
And this..

..the Disclosure of Vehicle Insurance Regulations 2005 "were made under powers provided for in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005."

Do I detect megalomania?
Future roads policing article... - J Bonington Jagworth
And this!

"The new offence of keeping a vehicle without insurance criminalises the previously harmless pastime of keeping an uninsured vehicle in a garage and not driving it"

You couldn't make it up...
Future roads policing article... - Garethj
I'm sure the real bad guys won't realise the system can be defeated with a £10 numberplate or a 50p black marker pen, despite the best efforts of making it a pain to get new numberplates made up the legal way.
Future roads policing article... - J Bonington Jagworth
I'd give serious consideration to the marker pen idea. Pretty difficult to distinguish it from dirt in the unlikely event that they do catch up with you...
Future roads policing article... - Adam {P}
I was parked next to a car before. Nothing odd about that you might think but there was yellow tape stuck on a letter (presumably an E) to make it look like an F.


Future roads policing article... - cheddar
I wonder how many cars on the roads have false plates, I occasionally see a number that in year terms does not seem correct for the vehicle it is on though it is clearly not a private plate. Rather like seeing a facelift Focus that was introduced on a 51 plate with a Y plate.
Future roads policing article... - tunacat
Well when chavs seem to be able to drive about in modern cars with silver-on-black numberplates with impunity, what's the chance of a bit of yellow sticky tape being detected...