Speed enforcement / waving

[Oldbillplod]

:rolleyes:

Eh :confused:

[jarobins]

Question: When you are running radar/laser, do you find it's more effective to actually stop a vehicle and hand out a ticket/warning etc, or would you consider a driver who slows/waves to have been 'warned'? :confused:

I don't find either one very effective, but I am expected to write tickets and actually enjoy giving them out. I stopped the same car two nights in a row for speeding (20+ over) from the same radar hole, within minutes of being exactly 24 hours apart. RD ticket first night. RD and warning second night, the warning was that I would be there the next night.

Tickets don't slow people down and neither does a warning. When one of my shift partners stops a car one of us usually sits up the road at the next crossover. People still blow through radar at ridiculous speeds even after passing some other idiot pulled over getting a ticket.

I usually tell people that ask for a warning that their "warning" was the big white sign with the speed limit posted on it.

[ChesCopPodz]

Asking for a break is one of my big no-no's and assures a ticket. Dropping names is the biggest pet peeve I have and I will write everything I can find if they drop a name.

[P01IC3M4N]

i've actually been sitting in a spot shooting laser and get sent on a call. as i pull out, a car or two will sometimes pull over. guilty conscience i guess.

[fetom]

I saw a diagram once of different objects and how much electromagnetic radiation they emit. Our cell phones put out way more power than a radar unit. If you won't hold the radar gun to your head maybe you should stop using a cell phone. :D

I only use the cell phone once every other day, I have no friends and the dept does not issue to rank and file officers except in exceptional circumstances. :(

[fetom]

The ticket I gave out last night to a Probatioanary Driver (first three years of holding a licence) will slow him down, at least in 28 days when he loses his licence for 12 months. Clocked at 151km/h in a 100 k zone = 94/60 mph. plus an extra three month suspension after that for accruing excess demerit points (5 for a probationer) and he got 13 points from the three tickets I wrote for him. ($654AU = US$520)