mrstinchcombe wrote:
Even if the PC did recognise the security pass then why would this have made a difference to the way you were dealt?
Im pretty sure the pass doesn't say on it "Allowed to drive at ridiculous speed on A Roads" so why should this pass in itself let you off?
Its up to the courts to decide whether the speeding was justified or whether it gets the punishment it deserves.
I think you are wrong.
I can think of several instances where, on being show a pass or given an explanation, a police officer will NOT inform the CPS. Here are three of them:
1) A Royal Marine who was a member of the SBS who has been ordered to return to base ASAP because he is required for an urgent anti-terrorist operation.
2) A husband driving his wife who is in labour to hospital when the ambulance broke down outside their house and no other ambulance was immediately available. In this case the police officers gave them a blues and twos escort to the hospital.
3) A Biker who is ferrying several pints of rare blood at speed for an emergency operation.
By applying YOUR standard the Royal Marine, the husband and wife and the biker would have been detained at the roadside whilst details were carefully taken, paperwork completed, etc.
Of course, the anti-terrorist operation would have failed at possible great loss of life, and the baby would have died at the roadside, the patient undergoing the operation would have died. But hey! So long as
mrstinchcombe wrote:
Its up to the courts to decide whether the speeding was justified or whether it gets the punishment it deserves.
what would THAT matter?
Police officers need to be allowed to do what they did years ago. Exercise discretion and common-sense and police the roads, not act like puppets on the strings of pointless targets issued by people who never really served as police officers.