Neil Down Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 4 hours ago, LightBulb said: No sure about that, i seen him waving his hands a lot, but none of the cars in front of me seem to notice him, and i didn`t either, ( although i did see a few cars in front of me doing a "temperature check" sticking thier fingure up outside just to see how cold it was ) . You do know how speed check/traps work don’t you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, WTF said: no fines , just crush the vehicle. I’ve said this all along. It’ll soon focus the attention of the idiot drivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supamanx Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 After all the ‘publicity ‘ over the speed limit on Richmond Hill anyone who gets done for speeding there deserves all they get , I always get a queue behind me as i set my car to 30 when I get to the limit , I can see it annoys some people but tough, I’m not getting done to pacify them ! Just to clarify I’m not some old bugger who deliberately drives slow to annoy people, I enjoy driving and am a confirmed petrol head, my car is a V8 and gets driven as it should where possible, but as I said above it’s been well publicised that the police will be on Richmond Hill 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 19 minutes ago, Supamanx said: After all the ‘publicity ‘ over the speed limit on Richmond Hill anyone who gets done for speeding there deserves all they get , I always get a queue behind me as i set my car to 30 when I get to the limit , I can see it annoys some people but tough, I’m not getting done to pacify them ! Just to clarify I’m not some old bugger who deliberately drives slow to annoy people, I enjoy driving and am a confirmed petrol head, my car is a V8 and gets driven as it should where possible, but as I said above it’s been well publicised that the police will be on Richmond Hill Maybe so, but why don't they just fix the road? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supamanx Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Because it’s too cold ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 11 minutes ago, Supamanx said: Because it’s too cold ! It's the warmest it's ever been at this time of year! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 6 minutes ago, finlo said: It's the warmest it's ever been at this time of year! With frost overnight though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Excuses excuses! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 7 minutes ago, finlo said: Excuses excuses! Are they not between a rock and a hard place though ?. They could redo the whole road tomorrow in tarmac, but heavy rain will cross the road making some drivers skid or aquaplane. Or they could resurface with chippings, but because of the temperatures in winter, they may not adhere and do the same as the last "crap" effort, when they all came away and left many bare patches and lots off loose stones flying about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manx Bean Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 14 hours ago, LightBulb said: I came down Ricmond Hill today, and a copper at the home for horses was doing speed checks, not entirley un-expected, but what i didn`t expect to see was that he was in a brand new un-marked "top of the range" grey touring BMW. When tynwald granted the Chief Constable an extra £3.5m in his budget, i thought it was to be spent for general policing, and not to be spent on grandio`s police cars. There are a plethora or other suitable vehicles that are significantly cheaper - it would be interesting to raise an FOI on the cost of all of these high-powered vehicles and how many have been written off..just saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 The grey Beemer is a 2016 ex demonstrator bought with some mileage on it, early 2017 if I remember correctly. A car I hold in some affection as it was the last police car I ever drove. The price paid, believe me, was ridiculously low. In fact, we were set to order an unmarked ST Focus when this came available unexpectedly, and we saved several thousands off what we would have paid even for that. I cant see an FOI request ever giving up individual vehicle prices. It would give the overall expenditure over a year perhaps? The manufacturers do very noble deals for the police service, and as soon as you start undermining the integrity of that then it would quickly change. Trust me - the cops had some absolutely belting deals on their fleet during the time I served and I’ve no reason to believe that has changed. Down to very hard work on the part of one particularly dedicated individual. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 a few years ago now but i was at the acpo conference and they wanted £40k for a splitter, you could buy them for £22k off a dealer...... the fitted cars also had daft prices on....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 18 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: The grey Beemer is a 2016 ex demonstrator bought with some mileage on it, early 2017 if I remember correctly. A car I hold in some affection as it was the last police car I ever drove. The price paid, believe me, was ridiculously low. In fact, we were set to order an unmarked ST Focus when this came available unexpectedly, and we saved several thousands off what we would have paid even for that. I cant see an FOI request ever giving up individual vehicle prices. It would give the overall expenditure over a year perhaps? The manufacturers do very noble deals for the police service, and as soon as you start undermining the integrity of that then it would quickly change. Trust me - the cops had some absolutely belting deals on their fleet during the time I served and I’ve no reason to believe that has changed. Down to very hard work on the part of one particularly dedicated individual. The BMW having better roadholding and handling characteristics also helps to keep costs down I would think? Government does have access to some great fleet deals and it makes sense to take advantage of them and change the vehicles regularly to keep value in them. This also reduces running costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Whoever the fleet manager is, is doing a good job in my opinion. I don’t see many brand new cars knocking about, but there are several quite old ones still in use. Just how old is the silver focus or the Hyundi. Both still going. I remember the days when it was no problem to buy Sierra Cossies and top of the range Range Rovers etc I can’t see why anyone would complain about buying another unmarked car that blends in well to do it’s job. Saw it the other week pulling in a white van man. No problems with unmarked cars at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
display name Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 21 hours ago, Supamanx said: After all the ‘publicity ‘ over the speed limit on Richmond Hill anyone who gets done for speeding there deserves all they get , I always get a queue behind me as i set my car to 30 when I get to the limit , I can see it annoys some people but tough, I’m not getting done to pacify them ! Just to clarify I’m not some old bugger who deliberately drives slow to annoy people, I enjoy driving and am a confirmed petrol head, my car is a V8 and gets driven as it should where possible, but as I said above it’s been well publicised that the police will be on Richmond Hill COR!! EIGHT cylinders? In a V? Yep,you've confirmed something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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