Coppers and why I dislike them immensely!

[Ed Doe]

You are aware that the road traffic act gives police the power to stop any vehicle to check the drivers documents? So having nothing better to do and being out looking for people breaking the law (like those with no licence and insurance that put up all our insurance premiums) is apparently bang out of order. Would you prefer that the police sat in the police station drinking tea all day? I take it that your aware that most burglars (especially in the country side) use a vehicle to transport their ill gotten gains?

Come on your moaning about the police doing what their paid for and you cant claim some sort of discrimination or harassment if hes stopping everyone.

If you dont want to get stopped driving a car then dont drive a car.

Maybe look at it that 1 in 10 cars is uninsured so if he pulls over 10 drivers in a night then hes going to be able to seize a car off one of them.

Isn't it more the point that a. the copper needed a reason to pull him, and being bored just isn't adequate, and b. the ANPR is designed specifically to check documents on a vehicle, so random pulling doesn't have to occur.

I think it's half & half; it's nice to see the coppers actually doing something, but it's a f*cking pain in the arse that he's fannying about with people who have all their documents and haven't actually done anything wrong, rather than actually going to catch proper crims....