Power-Mad Policeman

Moorron said:
"if you dont shut up i will find something wrong with your car and the judge will believe me rather than you"!!!!!!!!!!!!.
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most police ive spoke to have been decent guys actually

BUT

ive had the above when in the car before , made me feel so angry that they can get away with it.

and on a nightout ive had the "ill find something to lock you up over no matter how stupid it is" admittedly i was been cheeky, but in defence the woman PC with him was laughing her head off at me :p
 
Overlag said:
should have wrote his number plate down and reported him.
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Cyanide said:
Derbyshire Police Control room seems to think it's a bit suspicious and they highly doubt one of their officers would do something like that so they've put out a request that their officers keep an eye out for the car in the area (I didn't get chance to write down the plate etc and wasn't really thinking at the time)
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:)
 
ALLI said:
Hmm, and off duty policeman has no power to pull you over.
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He does if he is in uniform. Technically an officer has the "powers of a constable" at all times, so he could arrest you at any time for instance, off-duty or not. But the RTA says they have to be in uniform before you are required to stop for them. So if he was off-duty but in uniform, you must stop if he requests you to.


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Meridian said:
He does if he is in uniform. Technically an officer has the "powers of a constable" at all times, so he could arrest you at any time for instance, off-duty or not. But the RTA says they have to be in uniform before you are required to stop for them. So if he was off-duty but in uniform, you must stop if he requests you to.


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And when he gets along side, you give him a nice hand gesture, plant your foot on the throttle and let the GTIs turbo see his *cough* rubbish 5 series vanish in your rear view mirror. The rest as they say would be history.
 
How do you know it was an off duty copper, I remember getting cut-up by some twit once who "claimed" to be a copper, we ended up in the same pertrol station and I asked to see his Warrant Card!

Of course he didn't have one because he wasn't a Policeman! More likely to be some "twit" trying to pull one over one you.
 
Evidently my Grandad just read in the newspaper that the week before the same thing happened to a woman. Same area, silver bmw... except she got out, someone jumped out the back of the bm and her car was nicked.

Won't be stopping for anything less that full blues, uniform, waving his badge at me and possibly a warning shot in future.
 
Meridian said:
If he didn't show a warrant card then he's almost certainly not a police officer: they carry the card at all times.


And FWIW, the law says you must stop when requested to by "an officer in uniform". Which is why the police officers in unmarked cars still wear uniform. No uniform=no stop. Unless they wave an MP5 at you, in which case I suggest you do what the nice man says.


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what about at night? you cant see the people in the car behind you when they have headlights on so how do you know its a copper unless they overtake you, by which time you've essentially been stuffed by someone.

me personally, i don't stop for anyone - especially at night or if i'm in the sticks on my own.
 
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helpimcrap said:
what about at night? you cant see the people in the car behind you when they have headlights on so how do you know its a copper unless they overtake you, by which time you've essentially been stuffed by someone.

me personally, i don't stop for anyone - especially at night or if i'm in the sticks on my own.
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I think you're confusing the Law with logic - a common mistake. I was merely quoting the law.


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Meridian said:
He does if he is in uniform. Technically an officer has the "powers of a constable" at all times, so he could arrest you at any time for instance, off-duty or not. But the RTA says they have to be in uniform before you are required to stop for them. So if he was off-duty but in uniform, you must stop if he requests you to.


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Correct. Also by 'uniform' it does not require full uniform or anything that says POLICE on it. Any police uniform that is 'reasonably sufficient to identify as a police officer' is enough. So if you fail to stop for somebody holding a warrant card wearing a police cap you've committed an offence of failing to stop - which is quite often the case for on duty plain clothes officers.
 
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