159mph, and he got off???

B 7 VP wrote: If its so important to be able to "Hone Your Skills" ala PC Martin without breaking the law,  get yourself off to the 6 Thousand Km of Autobahn still Unrestricted--I Hone each year @ 260kph + , and sharpen up the reflexes for 3 days on the NurburgRing--- BUT-- I dont do 130kph in a 48kph zone. Many posts have pointed out the Real problems with OUR countries Govt attitude to the Motorist, being political and revenue motivated Only. This Govt pass ill conceived laws and then the public have to accept a feeble , unsupervised, ill advised response from the Courts, CPS and Police , Headless chickens in ever decreasing circles. If YOU dont like what you get--AND have been getting for some years, You were invited to Vote it away---BUT you didnt want it enough. So NO good complaining about one law for them, one for you----You have 4 years to think about it.

I wondered when you would appear and try and move the subject onto the government.  

rubberknees50 wrote: The main problem of course is would any of the other parties do it any different!

Of course it would be different, I cant imagine the tories spouting this much rubbish for so long.

This government hates cars and their drivers, and will use every trick in the book, plus some, to extort more money from us under any guise so they can support whatever good cause they next want to play with.

Who the hell votes labour ?

I didn't but none of the other main parties would do anything different, the Tories included.

I still don't know what this has to do with a police officer doing 159mph though.....................

All this bitterness towards the police regarding speeding is, in my opinion, caused by ill feeling towards speed cameras and their operators.

This is NOT the police, they still do their speed campaigns where they are needed, but are not in control of scameras.

I assure you lots and lots of policemen and women have had tickets for breaking the speed limit , whilst on duty, driving police vehicles, and they do pay the fines, and take the points.

Training or 999 shouts, what do you want ?, do you want them to respond to you as quickly as they think they can ?, ( we are all open to mistakes )

Hindsight is always a great thing, and the report you get over the radio can be very different from whats happening in reality.

The officers themselves are demoralised enough with all this stuff, as are fireman and ambulance drivers, who get nicked in equal numbers.

Why should they get away with the odd mistake ?, because they are serving us, day in, day out, whichever service they belong to.

If your bitter about how traffic laws are being enforced, try your mp, bombard your scamera partnership etc, the police force is still a disciplined service, and as such they are required to do as theyre told.

Its the bosses I want lol, the one who was in charge of road safety from manchester, brunstrom etc.

Not the rank and file guys and gals.

The likes of brake, and transport 2000, red ken etc, they are the real problem.

Even his fellow officers think he was a very lucky chappy indeed to get away with this.

He is not a good example to use.

I'm not too disapointed, as if I ever get stopped for a few miles over the limit I shall claim I have new tyres or whatever, I'm trained to advanced level, and I was testing the vehicle etc.

I hope you will all come and visit me in HMP Whatever

To expect there will ever be a Police force in this country or any country for that matter that doesn't have a few bad apples is unrealistic. In any job or walk of life there are bad apples and the police are no different. 

The fact that you only ever hear about the bad ones is because as a general rule only bad news makes good news.

What evidence do you have for saying that there are some of the Police are persistant speeders who use the uniform as a cover? Just because there have been a few high profile cases of the Police being caught speeding doesn't mean that the individuals involved are persistant speeders.

As a final thought, the Police need to operate, on certain occasions, to different rules than the rest of us in order to do their job. If you rang the Police because a man had broken into your house with the intention of raping you would you not want the Police to be there as soon as possible?