Tassie Police Pissed off too

Found this today in the MRAforum.

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I thought I had better transcribe the following letter from today's
Launceston Examiner for you all, to confirm what we have been saying all
along. I am sure things are the same in Victoria.

BTW, with my two-finger typing this took forever, so you had better read
every word!

Cheers
Stuart
Triumph Sprint RS


"I refer to the letter "Police harassment" and would like to set things
straight.

Police officers are becoming disillusioned with the public's perception
that we are revenue raising and out to get everyone.

We are ordered to do these things by senior police management. We have
quotas to get on a daily basis; the bosses call them benchmarks.

We have to keep booking people to prevent us from copping a blasting
from our boss.

We can't caution people anymore as it doesn't get us our quotas.

Even the speed camera has a quota it has to achieve.

We have to breath-test thousands of people so as to prove the State
Government's claim that we are making the roads safer. We are not
allowed to just target who we breath-test, because if every second car
police intercepted had a drunk driver in it the figures would show we
had a problem on the roads.

Good police officers know where to find drunk drivers.

Speed cameras are now called road safety devices, but if you are driving
drunk, on the wrong side of the road in an unregistered vehicle, and do
not have a driver's licence, they won't do anything about that if you
are under the speed limit. How safe does that make you feel?

Front-line police are trying to make the community safer and genuinely
want to reduce crime and help people, but we are being hindered by the
directions of senior police and government.

They want to make this the safest state in the nation, but expect us to
do it on a shoestring budget.

Senior police talk about accountability, but the public is not making
them accountable for their decisions. There have been times when marked
police cars are ordered to be left at the station instead of patrolling,
so as to reduce the department's fuel bills and keep the vehicles'
kilometres down.

People would not sleep at night if they knew the truth. Make the
Government and senior police answer your questions, not the police
officer on the street.

-Serving Police Officer
Tasmania"

 

No surprises there.

This is the Police Farce whose boss decided that we damn bikies didn't have
front number plates, so we'd have to have our rego labels mounted on the
left-hand-side of the bike, a minimum of 500cm from the ground, in the
interest of road safety. The labels can't be stuck on the screen of your
fairing, because bikes are considered not to have windscreens.

So in the interest of road safety, we ride around with our rego lables in
plastic holders, adjacent to the chain, and are proud to live in the only
place on the planet to do so. Fuckwits rule, ok?

 

I got pulled up on the busa a few months ago for an 11am random
breath, licence and rego check.

As I hadn't long got the bike from Victoria I hadn't got around to
figuring out where I'd put the bloody sticker. Cop didn't say anything
about it though ... [1]

It is now firmly attached to the bottom of my wardrobe, and I think
it'll stay there.

Cheers

[1] Did cart me off to the station for blowing over the limit (fark!
11 hours after I'd gone to bed - thankfully went under on the proper
device).


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Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

I drove past that Rokeby blitz and saw a busa.....thought emmeny of them are there in this state



smack

 

Yeah - cops were actually very good about the whole thing. I emailed
them a couple of weeks later to comment on how well they handled it.
They left a car and two guys there with the bike (as they were
starting to pack up) and they didn't want to leave the bike in Rokeby
unminded. The cops were real good about it (I had done the right thing
the night before, gone into town, booked into motel and caught taxis)
couldn't believe I would still blow over the next day. Mind you, I
hadn't even taken deep breaths or anything as I didn't think it would
be a problem ...

So - beware!

Cheers

Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

Kevin Gleeson said....

KG> couldn't believe I would still blow over the next day. Mind you, I

New Years Eve, 1999/2000. Big one, up at Jameson (near Mansfield). I had
one of those disposable tube type breath test kits, similar to the types
that the police used to use. It indicated that I was 0.08 about 3pm on
New Year's Day....

Must not get beered out and switch to Bourbon and Dry. Must not get
beered....

 

Yeah - certainly opened my eyes ...

Girl cop was really good, she asked if I'd had brekky and suggested it
would be a good idea to get the metabolism going. (Not that I ever eat
brekky, but taking a choice in the situation next time I certainly
will).

Cheers

Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

Kevin Gleeson said....

KG> Girl cop was really good, she asked if I'd had brekky and suggested it

Hmm. HOW good???

 

conehead said....

co> So in the interest of road safety, we ride around with our rego lables in
co> plastic holders, adjacent to the chain, and are proud to live in the only
co> place on the planet to do so. Fuckwits rule, ok?

It's also a requirement here in Vic.

I had mine bolted to the number plate. But after reading the appropriate
road rule (highlighted by Nev...) it's now firmly cable tied to the left
side of my gearsack rack...

Thing is, it's now harder to read than when it was on the plate. The
bike leans to the left and this makes it harder to view. Dunno what the
logic in this is..

 

Did I? I don't recall. Couldn't have been a highlight. Mine is wherever the
biks shop put it. I think it's on the back of the 12R and on the chain guard
on the XX.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Quite cute too - which always helps

Cheers


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Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

....covered in noxious slime? I'm sure many would appreciate the scene of
H.M. Filth kneeling in the gutter and wiping gobs of sticky black goo onto
their finger...

Gary (a pleasure of which I'm permanently deprived)

 

You could always borrow an aerosol can of chain lube and just give your rego
holder a bit of a spray then go riding down some dirt roads. It has the same
effect.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX