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159mph copper escapes punishment again
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/5284962.stmA policeman who drove at 159mph on a motorway has been found guilty of dangerous driving and given an absolute discharge.
Cameras on board Pc Mark Milton's unmarked car clocked him driving at high speeds on the M54 in Shropshire.
He was originally cleared of the same charge but the High Court overturned his acquittal and ordered a retrial.
But despite his "eye watering" speeds the judge at Ludlow Magistrates' Court gave Pc Milton an absolute discharge.
District Judge Peter Wallis said the 38-year-old from Telford, Shropshire, had "suffered enough" with two-and-a-half years of court proceedings.
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If, as this case seems to suggest, they have no planned or instituted testing programme then I assume this goes on all the time and we're all at risk.
Isn't there two things here? Firstly that there should be something for police drivers to test and improve their skills. Secondly, because there isn't there only real way to do it is to do it on roads and it seems fair he's been given an aboslute discharge, (especially as its another disgraceful use of double jeopardy and to take two and half years for a speeding charge to be dealt with is a really quite crap).
But he had just gone ahead and done it, if he'd told his station or his boss, or warned other police in the area then it would have been acceptable.
We cant just allow any police officer speed anywhere without informing anyone, its bonkers.
I'd agree about the double jepardy though.
Surely if that was the case, then the police officer would've gone to a race track or something?
You'd hope so, wouldn't you?
As far as I know they do have facilities for that sort of thing, so I don't buy the 'well he didn't have a test track' excuse.
The claim that police drivers can only test themselves on an open road the public is using is, to put it mildly, the biggest load of bollocks ever.
Though probably not as big as the claim that the copper was really 'testing his skills' for the sake of him, the force and all of us.
Next time you commit a crime chaps, just tell the judge to spare you any punishment as you will have suffered enough between the charges being brought and the trial taking place. It sure worked for this man.
Two years ago an idiot cop on a motorbike decided to overtake a car on a left turn. My stepdad and mum just happened to be going the other way and he smashed into them, and they went flying into a wall. If anyone else did this, it'd be an instant ban, no questions. But a cop on the other hand, nine points on his licence, the maximum they can give without banning him. And it didn't surprise us one bit.
Still, the day a magistrate convicts a policeman is the day beelzebub comes to work shouting mush at his pack of huskies.
And people still let these brainless racist cuntstains run the English justice system?
Some guy in a Nissan Primera got a ticket for doing something like 1,500mph.
Afte he complained they found the camera was faulty.
it's when he was speeding through the 30 & 40 mph zones at like double the speed limit and there's people crossing, etc that he was most endangering the public.
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The thing is, he's still able to cause an accident, even though/if he was going the same way as the general public.
I'd really like to know where you heard this, as I've seen nothing to remotely hint that this was the case. Cheers
What I can say, quite categorically, is that I'm familiar with the roads this officer will have been using. I was using them one night last year when I 'gelled' with my new car. I'd have been going at least as fast as this guy was - it's a damned good stretch of road for driving on quickly.
Any fool can go and buy a seriously fast machine for a few thousand pounds. Police drivers need to be in a position to be able to catch criminals, and to do so as safely as possible. If this requires the officer to 'hone' his skills on an empty road at night, then so be it. I have little respect for the majority of police officers in cars - they take the piss, they really do. But pukka police drivers have the greatest of respect from me - they're the best. And they're exactly what Mr & Mrs Joe Public will be expecting the day someone kidnaps their child and is being followed by a police officer.
Personally, I hope the poor sod quits. Until we stop believing this 'speed kills' bollocks fed to us by the government, he has little chance of doing the job to the standard it deserves.