Its OK to drive uninsured the police do not care.

paddedjohn

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Or maybe the police have the owner, or driver under, observation and have bigger fish to fry with them. Perhaps a pull for no insurance would put a more important operation at risk. Maybe you ought to be careful about which rocks you turn over.

if they are watching the driver and he is indeed uninsured then surely they have to stop him or else they would be in the mire if he was involved in an accident and it later came out that they knew he was driving uninsured.

forgotmyname

Outpost wrote: »

You haven't lived...

Is there a special club? Do i get a real fake plastic police badge type thing? Is membership free? Im so excited. :j Sign me up.

paddedjohn... As i mentioned i think. The woman (police woman)? on the phone started grilling me before i had even given them the vehicle details. So rules that out for the initial contact.

All i expected was a thank you for letting us know and thats the end of the call. It would take them a couple of seconds to get an idea if the vehicle was insured or if i was a time waster.
Black mark to my number if info is incorrect and expect a knock on the door if i did that too often.

MDBJ

Although I'm not a police officer my work naturally attracts people who want to offer information. People rarely, in my experience, offer information for simply altruistic reasons and so when they call I want to know as much as possible in order to judge the credibility of the person and their information. Being "grilled", was simply a product of the police wanting to be able to understand why you called as much as what it was you wanted to tell them.

wba31

MDBJ wrote: »

Although I'm not a police officer my work naturally attracts people who want to offer information. People rarely, in my experience, offer information for simply altruistic reasons and so when they call I want to know as much as possible in order to judge the credibility of the person and their information. Being "grilled", was simply a product of the police wanting to be able to understand why you called as much as what it was you wanted to tell them.

I agree with this. Test the validity of the source. Are you genuinely concerned or just an ex with a grudge kinda thing? I bet the police get all sorts of bogus calls from people who just want to get one over on someone who has wronged them, i remember with the dudley earthquake there were a number of old people reporting it to the police (not "i think my house is being broken into" but "there has just been an earthquake!") in which nothing can be done. The issue with the police is that all on duty officers may have been dealing with things already, and going to the McDonalds may take 2-3 minutes, in that time mr uninsured finishes his mcflurry and drives off...

mikey72

Report of an uninsured driver will be logged, then in a few days the community policeman will go and knock on the door, and advise him to get it insured.
You're not going to get a response from a car on the way to get the breakfasts in.

Outpost

forgotmyname wrote: »

Is there a special club? Do i get a real fake plastic police badge type thing?

It's brass.

Hammyman

Tilt wrote: »

Not difficult to check nowdays Hammy... if you now where to look!

MIB isn't the be all and end all. A friend of mine has a traders policy with SD&P use on it as well. It doesn't have specific registrations on other than his private and stock. There is nothing to stop him riding around in any car without a policy in force in its own right.

Flyboy152

paddedjohn wrote: »

if they are watching the driver and he is indeed uninsured then surely they have to stop him or else they would be in the mire if he was involved in an accident and it later came out that they knew he was driving uninsured.

Not at all, that would have been in worse trouble of they allowed an investigation, for a far worse crime, go to pot, for the sake of a relatively, lesser crime.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

i thought reporting things like this would give the police an excuse to execute if a known crim flagged up,

1. stop car.

2.search car

3.any finds of illegal subs, wich warrants a house search if done for intent to supply.

4.arrest

5.search house.

you dont have to give police any name or number its a given right as a member of public to report something annonymously (looks wrong dont it), you can ultimately refuse to give any details and any report should be seen as a report of crime none the less.

the vehicle reg will have been marked on the ANPR database, but as youve given your details the police can fall back on you to give a statement wich you can refuse to do.

6 job done!

forgotmyname

Being grilled is one thing. I wish i had recorded the call now. I think everyone would have been shocked
at her tone and attitude.

How dare you report something... Type of tone.

I know the MIB is not very accurate, My father has a trade policy and his vehicle shows up as uninsured.

I presume the police one is more accurate, But maybe not.