159mph, and he got off???

Rhys wrote: The police round here train on the by-pass, and have been sean doing well over a ton. 2 volvo's one in front weaving about 2nd following.

Think they'd mind if some of us civilians joined in procession?

Nigel wrote: Leave the copper alone. He wemt a little over the top, and got away with it, good luck to him. Other officers think he was over the top too.

I think twice the limit on the motorway and 3 timees the limit on other roads is more than a little over the top!

There should be a system by which this sort of driving can be authorised and monitored, otherwise how can he rate his performance, and without the control room's involvement how can they state as a fact the road was clear and it was safe. At nearly 3 miles a minute he had no way of ensuring that on his own.

Horsetan wrote: Nigel wrote: Make a start doing your regular advanced, see what friends you make ! When's your next training session?

Sunday AM, why, want to come ?

Horsetan wrote: Nigel wrote: ...Its in Worcester Horsey, .... Any chance of you doing a session nearer Herts.?

PM me your name, address, & phone number, and I'll get your local people to deal, or...come to an event that I'm at, and I'll give you a demo run, and an assessment drive, in whichever order you prefer.

Nigel wrote: Leave the copper alone. He wemt a little over the top, and got away with it, good luck to him. Other officers think he was over the top too. Most of your gripes ( Stephen excepted ), are down to the stupid way speed limits are both set and enforced at the moment. Despite cretins like CC Brunstrom, this has very little to do with the Police, they are often ignored at the partnership meetings and stick up for higher speed limits etc than many of you think. Your real problem these days isn't the police, its the scamera partnerships, the do gooders on councils who listen to every bleating mother who wants Johnny to be able to play football in the middle of the M1, and the likes of brake and transport 2000. Although over the top the PC is trained, so lets leave him alone to protect us.

Well said Nigel.

I haven't read all of the replies since I last looked but a lot of the comments people have made are about "why shouldn't I be allowed to test my car out and see what it can do?"

The simple answer to this is because it isn't your job to pursue criminals who are very likely to break the speed limit in order to get away. Some of you guys would be the first to complain if the Police weren't allowed to break the limit in order to chase a criminal. 

whiterider wrote: Nigel wrote:   Knowing your/our background Ian, I'm surprised at your comments Why? He's not saying it isn't necessary to do these sort of test drives, only they should be under control. Would either of you been allowed to take an RAF vehicle off base without authority on public roads and behave like this with no comeback? Would you be pleased to hear they do these sort of sspeeds on the roads around your home whenever they took a fancy to?

I would be very surprised if Ian never abused his uniform, or rank to suit himself, never used an crows footed battery in a civvy peice of kit, never used HM Equipment for his own benefit, including vehicles.

The reason for all the publicity when this stuff happens is due to the stupid enforcement of stupid motoring laws to pander to the politicaly correct, gobby few.

The Police in some ways ask for this, but the press make it ten times worse.

I didn't see any complaints when West Mercia ( this guys force) nicked the camera van.

The far worse event recently was when the Manchester head of road safety ( a high ranking policeman) was caught doing 100 plus on the M6 toll road in his own car.

The PC was almost certainly enjoying himself, there probably was an element of test to what he was doing, even in some of his colleges opinions he went too far, but he got away with it so good luck to him.

The lady with the apple is another good example of how the Police can cock it up, although I'm sure we will never know the truth about that.

By pandering to the press idiots on stories like this I think you are actually helping groups like brake and transport 2000.

On BBC radio two yesterday even the IAM wouldn't speak out against the officer, even though everyone there knew what he did was at the very least a bit tounge in cheek.

Everyone who drives seems to be feling bitter about how the motoring laws are enforced, but on the whole it isn't the police.

You would be amazed at just how many officers have been procescted for doing 35 in a 30, on duty, in Panda cars by the scamera partnerships.

And they have been nicked, not let oiff, the odd story hits the headlines like the Ambulance driver on the motorway with the donated organs for an op. One of the scamera partnerships involved (not the Police ) just wouldn't let this drop, so the government eventually made them, then they said they were just clarifying the law !

How many times have people on here been stopped and "given advice", I certainly have.

At some point we need to support our Police, and fight the real enemy, the road safety campaigners who would have us all back to a man in front with a red flag.