Police Scotland - Revenue Generation vs. Prevention

If I got done for 77 my speedo would be reading well over 80. You read threads like this and it just leaves you wondering how the fuck some people think.
It's the lumps in his seat, raising him above the high viz reflections, thereby making the 'over 80' irrelevant :augie
 
They probably resent the imposition of targets as much as you resent getting the ticket.


Awful things - and in my opinion cause more harm than good. Thankfully where I am, they have binned them altogether after several bad incidents that came about purely as a result of performance figures. (most notably incidents involving crime figures and TIC's rather than tickets).
 
If you having been driving /riding donkeys years
Don't you get offered the speed awareness course
Still get the fine but no points
Also you need to tell your insurance company
It's a shitter

The ACPO guidelines for speed awareness courses are up to 10% + 9mph ISTR, so up to 75mph on a NSL road.

I remember a parked traffic car giving a group of us from the VFR club a slow down hand signal as we passed him on the A85 a few years ago and sure enough, about a mile down the road, there was a scamera van parked up. Nowadays he'd probably have to shop himself for perverting the course of justice :D
 
I said it was all my own fault - twice. I got outsmarted on the day.

. . . and it just leaves you wondering how the fuck some people think.

This person thought it was fuckin' brilliant to be riding one of our wonderful quiet Scottish roads on a sunny day in a safe and smooth manner, only to be beaten by a sneaky bobby due to my failure to deploy 20/20 telescopic x-ray vision. And do you honestly never take your speedo up to 80mph?

Spot on. A little bit of manning up and taking it on the chin without moaning on here required methinks.

Moaning? Yes, but isn't that what this place is all about. Would it have been OK to moan in the B&B section rather than the Scottish section where I thought it more pertinent to one of our favourite roads?

And my chin is indeed seriously hurting along with my pride.
 
I said it was all my own fault - twice. I got outsmarted on the day.



This person thought it was fuckin' brilliant to be riding one of our wonderful quiet Scottish roads on a sunny day in a safe and smooth manner, only to be beaten by a sneaky bobby due to my failure to deploy 20/20 telescopic x-ray vision. And do you honestly never take your speedo up to 80mph?



Moaning? Yes, but isn't that what this place is all about. Would it have been OK to moan in the B&B section rather than the Scottish section where I thought it more pertinent to one of our favourite roads?

And my chin is indeed seriously hurting along with my pride.

You are a sniveler arnt you......
 
You think Sir Stephen House is after another one....Sir Stephen House squared mebbe?
Oops my bad should have searched first. But that doesnt change the fact that heas cnut and out to make a name for himself. Perhaps he should fuck off too Ireland where his err...love interest lyes. Maybe he can take out an injunction over there too, to stop folk speaking about him and his habits.
 
A family friend recently attended a speed awareness course in N Ireland after being caught doing 32 in a 30 zone, they raised the subject of ACPO guidelines and was told that they were just that guidelines and there was no margins for error.
 


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