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 Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law   Topic: Old diesel and ANPR dual question

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 22:47 

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Sorry mate, ANPR will need a full registration (VRM) as it wil lsearch exact matches against the PNC. Partial results are not confirmed and will not read, and as PNC fast track which responds to ANPR queries only replies with positive results (it dos nto show details of all VRMs passing, only those ...

 Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News   Topic: PC Mark Milton - verdict today

 Post subject: A couple of bits
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 18:57 

Replies: 72
Views: 29783


Can i illustrate the difference between law and policy? An officer in cambs police was threatened with prosecution after he had a crash, exceeding the speed limit (30mph i think). He was not a trained police driver, a new recruit in a marked car. He was hung out to dry, but the Police Federation rig...

 Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News   Topic: PC Mark Milton - verdict today

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 00:43 

Replies: 72
Views: 29783


good point on the private track idea, however, it cant work. The police driver training is based around making maximum safe progress, and beingable to stop on youre own side of the road in the distance seen to be clear. Thiswasformulated by a racing driver in the 1930's to reduce death on the roads ...

 Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News   Topic: PC Mark Milton - verdict today

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 00:28 

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Oops. forgot this. there are actual formal training guidelines to follow when conducting police trainiing. Some ofyou may remember the case of the metroplodington police driving school killing a nurse (in south cambridgeshire i think) a few years ago. Since then training has been tightened totally, ...

 Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News   Topic: PC Mark Milton - verdict today

 Post subject: some cracking replies
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 00:14 

Replies: 72
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Glad my post stimuated some debate. The whole case makes me mad as hell, mainly because my job is to drive fast but if it allgoes wrong its on my neck, not the chiefs. a couple of points i will answer as best i can. just a point of note. i tested the newest BMW 5series police vehicle many months ago...

 Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News   Topic: PC Mark Milton - verdict today

Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 18:35 

Replies: 72
Views: 29783


if he did make up the excuse - hes a muppet for videoing it atthe tim. hetherefore deservesthe sack for stupidity. my force cant actually afford video kit for moe than 3 cars out of a couple of hundred. too busy sending peopel on diversity and disability awareness biscuit eating days.

 Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News   Topic: PC Mark Milton - verdict today

 Post subject: a coppers view
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 18:25 

Replies: 72
Views: 29783


hi there. i am a pc in a smallish force in the uk. i am also an advanced pursuit driver. this means i have a)learnt to drive a car b) learnt to drive under response conditions and then c) been selected, tested, and trained then assessed again to drive high performance police vehicles in pursuits. in...
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