Camera Van on double yellow !

Aretnap

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

Where exactly is this stated in the Road traffic act, the Road Traffic Regulation Act or the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions act? because all I could find was information stating that stopping on a solid double yellow line was prohibited, and no mention it being permitted for "evidence gathering"

Even if it is the case, when they first park, how can they be collecting evidence of a crime when that crime hasn't yet occurred?

Depends on the Traffic Regulation Order which prohibits parking on that particular street, but every TRO I've ever seen has an exemption for "vehicles used for police purposes". No need for an emergence, or for evidence gathering.

Johno100

Aretnap wrote: »

Depends on the Traffic Regulation Order which prohibits parking on that particular street, but every TRO I've ever seen has an exemption for "vehicles used for police purposes". No need for an emergence, or for evidence gathering.

Likewise there are usually exemptions written in for Cash in Transit vehicles and vehicles providing a 'universal postal service', namely Royal Mail vans.

roddydogs

Strider590 wrote: »

Not me, but the folks who joined in and boxed him in, I think they had fun

So you & others wasted your own time, whereas he was being paid so probably couldn't have cared less.

mjoneseyjones

Strider590 wrote: »

Not me, but the folks who joined in and boxed him in, I think they had fun

None of this actually happened, did it?

Johno100

The police and their civilian staff do take the mick sometimes.

I recall a few years back the police using my employers private car park to pull over speeding drivers on one occasion and white van vehicle checks (red diesel etc.) on another. No coming in and asking for permission just an assumption that they could.

Captaincodpiece

Johno100 wrote: »

The police and their civilian staff do take the mick sometimes.

I recall a few years back the police using my employers private car park to pull over speeding drivers on one occasion and white van vehicle checks (red diesel etc.) on another. No coming in and asking for permission just an assumption that they could.

Did you bother to say anything to them at the time?

Strider590

mjoneseyjones wrote: »

None of this actually happened, did it?

Actually it did, the guy was driving like an utter pr*ck and I think everyone just saw red.

Johno100

Captaincodpiece wrote: »

Did you bother to say anything to them at the time?

I didn't, but my boss who owned the building did on the second occasion and sent them away with flea in their ear.:rotfl:

Marktheshark

Photograph and send to the Daily Mail.
Job done !

Hermione_Granger

JustinR1979 wrote: »

Makes no difference if I'm right or wrong, no difference to the veracity of the evidence acquired.

So you posted something and made it sound like factually correct statement then when asked to back it up, you simply state "Makes no difference if I'm right or wrong,"

It makes a hell of a lot of difference if you're right or wrong.