I have just driven down the A41 south from Chester.
New signs have been erected saying 'Police Notice' (I think) 'Aircraft Traffic Surveillance'
Does anyone know what this is all about.
Are they going to start issueing fines from the sky?
How much is this 'service' going to cost us?
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This has been stated on the A6 between Buxton and Bakewell for a number of years.
Tickets are probably delivered via carrier pigeons.
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Various police forces now use fixed wing aircraft as well as, or instead of, helicopters for surveillance.
Fixed wing aircraft are much more economical on fuel, can stay on patrol longer and carry more equipment but aren't as flexible.
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What a pathetic waste of police time and taxpayers money.
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What a pathetic waste of police time and taxpayers money.
Good point. Even if the signs were true, a couple of well placed speed cameras would be much cheaper and also save on wasted time.
Can't win, really...
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Hampshire and GMP both operate Islanders - who else has fixed-wing?
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Cheshire Police have operated an Islander for years.
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On a lot of American freeways out in the sticks you see "patrolled by aircraft". If you're lucky, it's a cessna with a couple of big guys in mirrored sunglasses; if you're not it's one of those Predator drones fitted with Hellfire missiles
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When I was over there, I was travelling up route 395 towards Yosemite Valley when I passed one of those signs.
A couple of minutes later, an F-15 passed overhead.
Can't imagine what my expression looked like, but I did a double take as my mind went "No way, surely not!?!"
I guess it was actually from a nearby Air Force Base, but the thought was amusing for a moment.
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New signs have been erected saying 'Police Notice' (I think) 'Aircraft Traffic Surveillance' Does anyone know what this is all about.
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It is spelling it out to "thickos" who do not know what those big white blobs are in splendid isolation in the middle of the carriageway on nice fast roads in rural areasAre they going to start issueing fines from the sky?
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They have been catching folks for years.
Relax ! It will not splat on your roof but on the front door mat :-)
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When are the police going to do what we pay them for instead of riding about in helicopters and planes and BMWS?
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Yes! Put them all on electric Noddy-trikes and send them out in the rain! That'll learn 'em!
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i'd need one for each buttock
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At Florence Santa Maria Novella station a few weeks back saw some police on Segways. It was amusing...
... they came out of the station pretty quick and shouted after a man who stopped. They then questions him for a good 5 minutes, checking ID, using radios etc. Then let him go. He was about to step off the pavement to cross over. Had he done so the Segways would have had to be abondoned I guess :-)
Just as funny, when they returned to the station itself I turned around and noticed they only just fitted between barriers. Had they been chasing on foot they probably would have been a lot closer in the first place. Makes me smile anyway.
Also Italian police in their uniforms and shades tend to look quite cool... but balancing on the Segway's they looked a little silly.
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Put them all on electric Noddy-trikes and send them out in the rain!
From "The Daily Telegraph":
"Here come the police . . . at 25mph"
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007...l
Perhaps you'd already seen this...
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We get GM Police in our area on mountain bikes - I bet faster and more manouverable (spelling?) than these T3 trikes. Also "security patrols" by non-police personel although not sure who they work for (council?). The latter on foot and bikes.
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When are the police going to do what we pay them for instead of riding about in helicopters and planes and BMWS?
Probably clearing up the carnage from the accidents on a clearly dangerous stretch of road. That's better, then.
I do wonder sometimes....
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This thread should be called 'Bears in the air'.
Didn't one of these catch the spaghetti-guzzling Dutchman in Wales the other day?
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"Ddn't one of these catch the spaghetti-guzzling Dutchman in Wales the other day?"
Didn't know that but just checked and seen a photo.... so these helicopters can police some things better than a car. On a straight bit of road could you tell he was steering with his knees???
Would have been safer with penne as it's easier to eat.... said as a joke! This man should be locked up for longer imho.
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Notwithstanding the lives that some of these craft have saved patrolling jointly with Paramedics. Islanders are cheaper to run than Helicopters apparently. Let them get on with it.
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I am glad I have swapped from a Scenic with a Panoramic sunroof, to an Altea XL with no sunroof!
They won't catch me eating at the wheel now......
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Just make like Ray Liotta, you put the guns in a paper bag in the boot/trunk, do a line of coke, issue really precise instructions about stirring the meat sauce and then make your deliveries whilst leaning forward at the wheel looking up for the circling helicopters.
Oh and then rat on all your mates and end up living in a pastel coloured dressing gown in the suburbia of some nowhere town in Iowa regretting every minute.
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