Police stopped me.

Steve_xx

Novablack

Your stories are typical of the type of officer I was referring to in my earlier posts. Their behaviour, at times. leaves a lot to be desired. I have heard of many such incidences and I believe it is right that joe-public should always register a complaint when they are treated so badly by an officer.

NovaBlack_2

yeah i was so annoyed i didnt get his number before he went. i was totally in shock though n panicking!. (first time EVER been spoken to by police about ANYTHING). didnt think till afterward! it was VERY surreal to be honest.

i couldnt have been more polite, cooperative and helpful unless i offered to shine his shoes for him before he left. i totally didnt understand it. it was realyl intimidating!

derrick

andrewriley87 wrote: »

AMBER means a warning to stop!!!
RED means stop.

Traffic light signals:-



AMBER means 'Stop' at the stopline. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident

Rule 151:-

151: You MUST stop behind the white 'Stop' line across your side of the road unless the light is green. If the amber light appears you may go on only if you have already crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to stop might cause an accident.
[SIZE=-1]Laws RTA 1988 sect 36 & TSRGD regs 10 & 36

So it depends exactly where he was when the lights changed to Amber!
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Steve_xx

NovaBlack wrote: »

yeah i was so annoyed i didnt get his number before he went. i was totally in shock though n panicking!. (first time EVER been spoken to by police about ANYTHING). didnt think till afterward! it was VERY surreal to be honest.

i couldnt have been more polite, cooperative and helpful unless i offered to chine his shoes for him before he left. i totally didnt understand it. it was realyl intimidating!

Yes I know what you mean.

I had an incident, years ago, when 4 of them stopped me in the street. They offered some absurd rubbish as a reason and demanded to know what was in my pockets. I was frightened and upset by their attitude and worse of all I was extremely embarassed that this was taking place in a city centre at 11pm at night.

I was not amused by the incident and after they'd totally humiliated me in the street and of course found nothing untoward, they told me I could go. I told them that they would be hearing from me in due course, and they did. I wrote to the chief constable and I demanded that he write and tell me what he proposed to do in order to restore my shattered confidence in his police force. He duly dispatched two CID officers to discuss the matter with me at my home and I demanded that they forward an apology which they did.

My argument was, apart from being totally humiliated, was that four of them spent around 15 minutes each on this fiasco. This time spent better might have prevented someone elsewhere from being injured or killed or maybe somebodys home from being burgled.

Stephen_Leak

I will probaby live to regret this but, strictly speaking, amber means stop, unless to do so could cause an accident. Also, both the best and worst driving I have seen has been by lorry drivers.

Police attitude can be a problem. A friend of mine was a Post Office manager and biker. He worked shifts, so regularly rode his bike to & from work at ungodly hours. He didn't mind the police stopping him regularly (knowing him, he probably was speeding), but he did object to their change of attitude when he unzipped his leathers to reveal a 3-piece suit, shirt & tie underneath.

If stopped in your car by the police, get out and walk back to their car - this then gives you the "body language" advantage. I also stand just forward of the hinge, like they are told to do, so that they cannot be hit by the door. I've even had one poor young lad looking up and asking gingerly, "You're not a copper, are you?"

It is easier for me with my age and experience, but never forget that you outrank any policeman, because you are a "mister"! And always note their "shoulder number" - dropping comments like, "Of course, constable Whiskey Oscar 101" into the conversation can be useful.

Stephen_Leak

superscaper wrote: »

I have a friend who works with an ex copper (was in the force decades) and apparently while on motorway patrol they play "snooker". Pull over cars of a particular colour for spot checks.

In the absence of any other reason, I have no problem with this as a method of selection for random spot checks - especially as my car is silver, which isn't the colour of any snooker ball!

derrick

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

I will probaby live to regret this but, strictly speaking, amber means stop, unless to do so could cause an accident.

Have you seen my post,#54, above? where I have already pointed this out

Stephen_Leak

derrick wrote: »

Have you seen my post,#54, above? where I have already pointed this out

Erm, no. I knew that I would live to regret it, but was thinking more of having to correct Conor!

SPANIEL36

andrewriley87 wrote: »

The police stopped us, we had seatbelts on, took them off when officers approached, one officer started to get the attitude, thats when i started to get defencive. They asked me no questions.

they had no reason to ask you anything unless they saw you weren't wearing your seat belt. they were questioning your friend as he was the driver and the one resposible for the maintainence of the car. i think your friend has got off quite lightly to be honest. they could've reported him there and then for the bald tyre which is 3 points and 60 quid fine. he also could've received a 30 quid fine for no seatbelt as could of you ( but you say you were both wearing them so you could've got off this unless they had video evidence that showed you not wearing it).

it sounds to me that he's had a teling off from them. i'd tell your friend to get the tyre sorted out sharpish as its probably likely he might get pulled over again by the same cops if he's seen by them

Bennifred

Timmne wrote: »

In my enthusiasm I did loads of research into it and found a forum for PCSOs (Police Community Support Officers) who are in most respects a police officer............

Wrong! PCSOs are NOT police officers and certainly shouldn't be claiming to be so.