Police in smart cars

[jonny-]

Anybody seen them :shock: they are parking up on big junctions in the lace where pedestrians usually wait to cross when there is a filter to the left or right. There is a dome camera on the top and a picture of a camera on the side of the car.

[VDG]

Cheeky f*ckers :twisted: got a taste of their own medicine..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QNfe...e_gdata_player

[chaplad]

i havnt seen any in sheffield yet,what are they trying to achieve?

[toastie]

i love the way they drive back to the station only to find out they cant do anything :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[andrew e]

We have them for parking enforcement round here with the camera on top. How they check for a blue badge is anyones guess...

[bry nylon]

They use them here in some parts of S London, they park up on side streets , well back from junctions etc but with the elevated camera on top they snap people doing illegal right turns, say where you are supposed to go straightahead.. I do not think they are staffed by Plod - they seem to be more like parking wardens...

[ggill]

They are used for detecting parking and driving offences of all calibres. They often are just driven around detecting such contraventions and you don't even know until a letter arrives at your door. Total revenue driving machine. That said whoever manufactures the technology for this are making fantastic money. Quite an interesting operating space I think.

[vulcangascompany]

Smart policemen would be a better development.. :D

[Pro Tempore]

Smart policemen would be a better development.. :D

All the smart ones have retired :lol: ... Paul

[jonny-]

It's a good job I didn't make that naughty right turn I saw it at the last minute and carried on

[Neil.Ldn]

They use them here in some parts of S London, they park up on side streets , well back from junctions etc but with the elevated camera on top they snap people doing illegal right turns, say where you are supposed to go straightahead.. I do not think they are staffed by Plod - they seem to be more like parking wardens...

Yes we have them here - run by Lambeth / Southwark Borough council to capture minor motoring infractions as a revenue-raising exercise - and they make my blood boil on a number of different levels. You can usually find them parked on double-yellow lines, often dangerously close to junctions waiting for hapless drivers-by to make a minor mistake so that they can film them and then slap them with a fine. One was parked in a no parking zone right on a junction outside my flat a few weeks ago - so I went down with my phone as started openly videoing them in position. They drove off pretty quickly and I never did anything with the footage but it was fun seeing the surprised look on the faces of the errr, 'operatives'. Probably a pointless exercise anyway as I understand that they are exempt from the traffic laws that the rest of us are subject to.