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[feeutfo]

Whenever I've flicked past it's been repeats (and thus, still features Omegas).. not sure if they're still filming new episodes, though. According to TheTVDB the last series was 2009/2010: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=133941

I think they're still waiting to Alistair Stewart to get a clean license so he can be patronising again.

 

Oh god isnt he just... 

Yep, and we can all say that with impunity, having never, AFAIK, got plastered and then decided to nip out for a chinese, wrapping our cars round a telegraph pole on the way. Twice.

...pmsl.

[Dishevelled Den]

The solution;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETbXOeTxEuM&feature=related

and how to implement it;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRe-wzC1W8&feature=related

Happy days.

[Kevin Wood]

The solution;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETbXOeTxEuM&feature=related

and how to implement it;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRe-wzC1W8&feature=related

Happy days.

Seems entirely proportionate, Den.

[Dishevelled Den]

The solution;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETbXOeTxEuM&feature=related

and how to implement it;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRe-wzC1W8&feature=related

Happy days.

Seems entirely proportionate, Den.

    I thought so K.

[Crazycarzowner]

Must admit one of the things that really infuriates me is drivers on the phone.  when I'm workin & have some 'down time' there's nothing I like more to do than preying on drivers on the phone. I can go through a book in about an hour quite easily, but then I get whined at by joe public sayin "Have you nothin else better to do? Why don't you go catch burglers or rapists" Love it, absolutely love it  If they only saw the carnage that I've seen in my short career that driving whilst using their phone creates, I think they'd think twice 

[Kevin Wood]

Must admit one of the things that really infuriates me is drivers on the phone.  when I'm workin & have some 'down time' there's nothing I like more to do than preying on drivers on the phone. I can go through a book in about an hour quite easily, but then I get whined at by joe public sayin "Have you nothin else better to do? Why don't you go catch burglers or rapists" Love it, absolutely love it  If they only saw the carnage that I've seen in my short career that driving whilst using their phone creates, I think they'd think twice 

I think the problem you are having is that you need to upgrade your book to the hardware Den has proposed. I'm guessing you'll get less complaints then.

[Dishevelled Den]

Must admit one of the things that really infuriates me is drivers on the phone.  when I'm workin & have some 'down time' there's nothing I like more to do than preying on drivers on the phone. I can go through a book in about an hour quite easily, but then I get whined at by joe public sayin "Have you nothin else better to do? Why don't you go catch burglers or rapists" Love it, absolutely love it  If they only saw the carnage that I've seen in my short career that driving whilst using their phone creates, I think they'd think twice 

When I was in uniform there were a few individuals who were sore on motorists and took cynical delight in turning them over as it was an easy clearance - some of the more fervent officers were in fact the worst offenders in terms of their less than disciplined observation of motor regs when driving their own vehicles.

In relation to lippy drivers, the realisation that three, sometimes more, heavily armed police officers would be taking a moment or two of their time ensured, for the most part, that overt dissatisfaction with this inconvenience was kept to a minimum.

Then, that was in the heady days before cellular telephones.

[I_want_an_Omega]

Report her for dangerous driving.Texting while driving should be a hanging offence imo.Its worse than being p1ssed behind the wheel.

How would you actually go about doing that?

[Lazydocker]

Report her for dangerous driving.Texting while driving should be a hanging offence imo.Its worse than being p1ssed behind the wheel.

How would you actually go about doing that?

Indeed... I actually dialled 999 about 10 weeks ago (on the way to the Lakes meet possibly? ) to report what was a display of downright lethal driving from some scrote in a Seat Leon. Politely reported that he had come within inches of crashing into me 3 times and another few cars several other times. The response I got was "If he's now behind you how is he bothering you?"

Needless to say I told her that if there was a fatal accident ibvolving that car on the A1 Northbound later that afternoon I would make sure that it was public knowledge that I had tried reporting his dangerous driving only to be fobbed off

I then pressed the load pedal (when the traffic situation cleared sufficiently) and got myself well clear of the "Danger Zone"

[Kevin Wood]

Indeed... I actually dialled 999 about 10 weeks ago...

I'm not surprised. I tried to get the Police to attend the scene of an accident a while back because a car was abandoned in a very dangerous position on a fast road, and an accident was, in my opinion, imminent. Didn't really want to know. A few marked cars subsequently drove past and witnessed the issue but didn't stop. A recovery truck was there by the time a Police car actually attended.

There was a time when, if you phoned the local police, you got someone in a local station, with local knowledge, who, armed with that knowledge, would quickly understand the problem and get it sorted. Now you get bounced from call centre to call centre.

[Lazydocker]

Indeed... I actually dialled 999 about 10 weeks ago...

I'm not surprised. I tried to get the Police to attend the scene of an accident a while back because a car was abandoned in a very dangerous position on a fast road, and an accident was, in my opinion, imminent. Didn't really want to know. A few marked cars subsequently drove past and witnessed the issue but didn't stop. A recovery truck was there by the time a Police car actually attended.

There was a time when, if you phoned the local police, you got someone in a local station, with local knowledge, who, armed with that knowledge, would quickly understand the problem and get it sorted. Now you get bounced from call centre to call centre.

It's very rare for me to deem something serious enough for a 999 call TBH, but this example of driving was terrifying

Fortunately the local call centre for home is only 12 miles away and staffed by local people, so calling that number normally gets much more sense

[Andy B]

Must admit one of the things that really infuriates me is drivers on the phone.  when I'm workin & have some 'down time' there's nothing I like more to do than preying on drivers on the phone. I can go through a book in about an hour quite easily, but then I get whined at by joe public sayin "Have you nothin else better to do? Why don't you go catch burglers or rapists" Love it, absolutely love it  If they only saw the carnage that I've seen in my short career that driving whilst using their phone creates, I think they'd think twice 

When I was in uniform there were a few individuals who were sore on motorists and took cynical delight in turning them over as it was an easy clearance - some of the more fervent officers were in fact the worst offenders in terms of their less than disciplined observation of motor regs when driving their own vehicles.

In relation to lippy drivers, the realisation that three, sometimes more, heavily armed police officers would be taking a moment or two of their time ensured, for the most part, that overt dissatisfaction with this inconvenience was kept to a minimum.

Then, that was in the heady days before cellular telephones.

but targeting drivers on the phone is the (relatively) easy bit. Joe Public would feel less alienated if they ever saw a copper dealing with incidents such as those above, but (like above) they get fobbed off - assuming they get through to their local nick in the first place. I've tried phoning them in the past but the phone just rang out, had to go there in the end.
A recent occasion of seeing someone texting while waiting at the lights was .................... a copper.  He just f***ed me off when I intimated a slapped wrist. 

............. and why is the chip on a copper's shoulder inversely proportionate to his size?

[Crazycarzowner]

Many traffic cops DO deal with the things listed above, or at least try to. The problems we have is like you say - centralised call-centres. By the time the jobs get through to us the offenders have at least 10-15 mins start. By the time the patrol car arrives the witness & the offender are usually long gone.
I can honestly say I don't do it to wind people up & have never used my phone whilst driving in the 6 yrs service I've got I have seen many RTC's that were caused by using mobile phones. Most recently a Saxo that ended up on its roof, when I got there the mobile was still on and the caller on the other end was $h1ttin em selves. I've stopped mini-bus drivers carrying children, HGV drivers, HGV drivers on their laptops? A female who only the previous DAY GOT A TICKET for mobile phone offences (learned a lot there then!) the list goes on......
Last week a member of a well known supermarket informed us that a customer had been in who was drunk-drivin. By the time the call came through they were already home! When asked for a statement from them they declined sayin 'oh I've done my bit' 
Then there's the call we all dred - the 'someones not coming home' visit we have to do. Not very nice.
What really does cheese me off is the fact that it seems theres no deterrant, as its been revealled recently via FOIA that there are some drivers who are STILL driving with a points score that Englands rugby union team would be proud of!!! On the news this am one driver had 30 points on his licence AND wasn't banned!!! Makes you wonder why you bother sometimes.

[JamesV6CDX]

I can go through a book in about an hour quite easily

Really?

I accept it may vary between forces, but in my experience there are at least 15 tickets, in an endorsable book.

Assuming it's the same for you, then to clear a book in an hour, you would have to detect the offence, safely stop the vehicle, check ID, run PNC and DL checks, inspect the vehicle (if they're committing this offence, what else are they slack over?), get your control room to timestamp the phone (ideally), write the EFPN, record replied contempraneosly, and process each driver, all within 4 minutes before you have stopped the next one

I know mobile phone use is rife, but, are you Supercop? 

Only kidding though, it's good to know people have the drive to bother with it, I know plenty of PCs who couldn't think of anything worse.....

[Crazycarzowner]

We have 10 in ours, also I very rarely use the control room as I have a data pad to do checks. Granted if other offences come to light it slows the process down. But its very rare I have an hour at it now, restructuring & redeployment spring to mind.
I concur that most bobbies I know hate traffic & can't think of anythin worse to do, when in reality its one of the easiest processes in theory (apart from the bad RTC's). The goalposts keep changing all the time now and with traffic being the fancy spangley fast response money eating pit that it is that the first budget to be chopped. Long gone are the days of the T5's, Rangies, and other specialist vehicles and half of the time we can't persue as its too dangerous and as much as I hate to admit it with some of the loons on the road I won't risk mine or anyone else's life in catchin em.