New Series of Traffic Cops...

wba31

THe program that was on Sky 1 used to be the police in unmarked vectra's stopping anyone without insurance... i used to watch it loads but it would make me so angry!

wba31

sillygoose wrote: »

Did you see it? not far off...

2 panda's, 1 van, 1 traffic car and 1 unmarked car and 4 officers with tazers to pull in a bloke for spitting on someone (OK the bloke was a lowlife and he did have a violence marker on his file) but c'mon on! any more and someone would have set up a burger van and a marque!

The tasers they were specially trained to use, but too scared to actually use incase they missed and got each other! genius! you never hear of that with US police and actual guns do you?!?

pitkin2020

wba31 wrote: »

THe program that was on Sky 1 used to be the police in unmarked vectra's stopping anyone without insurance... i used to watch it loads but it would make me so angry!

I couldn't agree more. You would watch them pick up all these driving offenders then after they would tell you if they received any punishment. There were several cases where they were stopping the same people over and over for having no driving license, no insurance, sometimes no TAX or MOT on the car. For the punishment they would get 1-3 years driving ban and something like a £50 fine for costs.
Now I may be a simple person but how can banning someone from driving be a punishment? Especially if take into consideration that the person banned clearly doesn't care as they don't have a driving license to begin with.
I remember one episode where (IIRC) a lad of around 23 had been stopped by the police for driving with no license or insurance on no less than 40 occasions. He was a polite chap and everytime he was stopped he complied and would have a good chat and a joke with the officers at the side of road before be taken to the station for the offence. Even he admitted to the camera the system was a joke and all he gets is a fine and a driving ban. He had been to prison for the offence for a couple of weeks but usually after a good number of these stops.

I know everyone moans about the police but I kind of feel sorry for them as most of the time their work in unappreciated not only be the general public by also by the courts. They are constantly dealing with the same people over and over for the same offences, knowing full well they will be dealing with them again shortly after the last time.
There is no more banged to rights as most people seem to get off because of a loop hole of sorts. Even those that are caught when they are dealt a sentence for the offence its usually pointless or minimal that is has very little effect on a lot of people.

pitkin2020

wba31 wrote: »

The tasers they were specially trained to use, but too scared to actually use incase they missed and got each other! genius! you never hear of that with US police and actual guns do you?!?

But the Americans are very well known for friendly fire!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

bosseyed

I do like these programmes - its interesting to see the differing and seemingly random punishments the various ne'er do wells get - often its completely at odds with the crime.

So often, hilariously, those cheeky little scamps who insist on driving with no licence or insurance are given a mild fine and a driving ban - yeah, because being legitimately allowed on the roads is clearly of great importance to these people.

Far too often the end of programe round up telling you the punishments for the various people is peppered with "And Barry Chav was given an official police caution and released" for the bloke who went mental on a moped necessitating a cross county pursuit and helicopter and all sorts, or "Richard Tit was released without charge" despite their being clear footage of him punching a policeman or similar.

rev_henry

All I can say about this £50 fine for driving illegally in some way nonsense is at least they get their cars crushed. Course they just go buy another £100 shed but at least its getting cars off the roads and causing them mild irritation.

shaun_from_Africa

Slightly off topic (okay, a lot off topic).

Did anyone see the "fly on the wall" type program about the Irish customs service that was on TV a couple of days ago?
The had a tip off that someone was smuggling cigarettes into Ireland through Dublin airport, so they intercepted their suitcases before they reached the baggage hall.
Once they had confirmed that the fags were in there, they let the bags go back onto the luggage carousel so they would be collected by the smugglers.

The customs officers then let the smugglers walk out of the airport and into the carpark, where they put their cases into a nice BMW and started to drive off.
It was only then that they stopped them and as the car had been used to transport smuggled goods, customs informed them that they had the legal right to impound it.
In the end they fined them €3000 and seized the ciggies.

A far better result than the smack on the wrist that most people get in the UK.

rev_henry

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Slightly off topic (okay, a lot off topic).

Did anyone see the "fly on the wall" type program about the Irish customs service that was on TV a couple of days ago?
The had a tip off that someone was smuggling cigarettes into Ireland through Dublin airport, so they intercepted their suitcases before they reached the baggage hall.
Once they had confirmed that the fags were in there, they let the bags go back onto the luggage carousel so they would be collected by the smugglers.

The customs officers then let the smugglers walk out of the airport and into the carpark, where they put their cases into a nice BMW and started to drive off.
It was only then that they stopped them and as the car had been used to transport smuggled goods, customs informed them that they had the legal right to impound it.
In the end they fined them €3000 and seized the ciggies.

A far better result than the smack on the wrist that most people get in the UK.

I think our customs people do a similar thing tbh. I've heard of cars being seized at calais.

harveybobbles

I wish the Traffic Plods over here would use the PIT manouver over here though.

Remember PC Pat Langley? The Traffic Plod who crashed twice? Well I saw him on some Australian Cop show a few months ago. The roads are wider over there, so he wont crash as much I guess...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk1A9iVwqJM

poppasmurf_bewdley

david39 wrote: »

I'm begiining to hate these programmes like Traffic Cops and Fake Britain which are documentaries having three or four storylines running simultaneously and the programme keeps switching from one to another.

It takes a boring couple of minutes at the start of each section to recap on "the story so far" as if we cannot remember what was happening when we left the storyline only ten minutes previously.

Why cannot they follow one storyline through from start to finish and then move on to the next? - Oh, I can guess why - if they spend two minutes each time they chop and change to repeat what was shown earlier, it amounts to about 8 minutes per hour of new programme footage that they don't have to make.

Unfortunately, the BBC have learned this trick from ITV and CH4 programmes where the same ploy is used because we all lose our memories during the commercial break. Come Dine With Me takes it to an extreme.

Programmes with Dominic Littlewood presenting seem to be the worst offenders with this habit. Maybe its one certain production company more than others that do this extremely annoying activity. The other big offender is Watchdog, with the annoying foreign bloke on the motorbike - get rid of him and save a few thousand off the licence fee.