Hidden cameras

[television]

Mobile speed cameras

http://speedcameralocator.co.uk/HiddenCameras.html

 

[whitenemesis]

Now, that's long range! No chance of spotting at that distance. Would interested in the reliabilty/accuracy at such distances.

 

[Silver Arrow]

Mmnn
The same source suggests that undercover vehicles are in use:

We have had a tip-off from the BTST Locator update team that
Police in Essex are using Silver Vauxhall vans (complete with
roof-racks and bumper stickers!) and a Silver and a Purple
Mini Cooper

Source:
Adam Blair <tips@beatthespeedtrap.co.uk>

 

[television]

Mmnn
The same source suggests that undercover vehicles are in use:

We have had a tip-off from the BTST Locator update team that
Police in Essex are using Silver Vauxhall vans (complete with
roof-racks and bumper stickers!) and a Silver and a Purple
Mini Cooper

Source:
Adam Blair <tips@beatthespeedtrap.co.uk>

So we had better be on the lookout for 2 little old ladies having a picnic on the hard shoulder (policemen in drag)

 

[MIW615]

So we had better be on the lookout for 2 little old ladies having a picnic on the hard shoulder (policemen in drag)

Never a truer word said in jest!!:mrgreen::mrgreen:

 

[The German Flower Pot]

in the peterborough area (on the parkways) there is a nice new black BMW 5 series and it nearly caught me and a few mates last weekend at around 2am on an empty 3 lane road, luckly i was last in the group about half a mile back tuning the radio at 50mph and managed to ring the others and tell them to beware (which was a good idea as some were in triple figures)

ive got a road angel 2 and that picks up mobile speed traps from 1km away

id be on my bike without it

yet cars can spank up and down my cul-de-sac all day a night with kids playing on either side and the police dont care!

ah the injustice

 

[Silver Arrow]

Got this in my inbox:


Following up on my email the other day about Police speed traps
using “under cover” type cars to trick motorists in to thinking
they are just normal members of the public broken down...

The very day after writing that, I was driving up the A14 north
of Cambridge and noticed what APPEARED to be an AA breakdown
recovery van parked up along side (if memory serves) a red Ford
Fiesta with the boot open and hazard lights on.

Keeping in mind the email I had just written the day before, I
naturally had a look and guess what…

There was a mobile speed trap set up in the boot of the car.

It was clearly set up to look like a broken down car and
recovery truck and to be honest, I thought it was a bit
dangerous because the red car was sticking out in to the inside
lane by a couple of feet.

I’ve also had a large number of emails to this effect,
particularly from BTST Members in Scotland and Wales.

The most extreme story came from a Member in Glasgow who said:

“This is common practice in Glasgow – a Ford galaxy under a
bridge with a kiddies Barbie bike etc out and tailgate up –
looks just like the family unloading the car to get at the
spare – on closer inspection the camera etc is set up in
the boot!!!”

Whatever the rights and wrongs surrounding these types of
practices, it shows that the Police are getting smarter in their
revenue collection methods.


Adam Blair

 

[Cnics]

In My Area (east midlands around the Junction 29 to 31 area of the M1) they use an old Sierra Estate with a roof box.


Rob

 

[gworilla]

BTST devices

Mobile speed cameras

http://speedcameralocator.co.uk/HiddenCameras.html

Has anyone actually got one of these devices. If so are they any good as they are claimed to be as good if not better than the Road Angels which are superb..???

http://speedcameralocator.co.uk/BTSTMembers/

 

[The German Flower Pot]

this really drives me mad

when will they stop geting at us drivers and **** of and do their jobs properly

sit in an old unmarked car in any housign estate and youll see no end of crimes going on

the reason they target us is if you have a car you have money and they want it

pigs

 

[Ben Lovejoy]

I'd be a bit sceptical as to his claims. There is nothing secret or special about the camera database, it's the same one everyone uses. There is also nothing secret about the police-notified mobile trap sites - again, that is the list that all companies use.

As far as I can see, the only meaningful claim he is making is that they update the mobile sites daily rather than weekly as most do. But since two weeks' notice is required, I can't see any practical benefit to the daily updates.

Personally I'm just about to upgrade to the Garmin Zumo 550, as that does navigation, speedtrap alerts, traffic alerts (with optional receiver) and Bluetooth hands-free phone all in one neat unit.

Ben

 

[Silver Arrow]

Just got sent this:

http://www.btst.co.uk/InTheBushes

 

[tupac2makaveli71]

ftp
look what i sawd

 

[television]

ftp
look what i sawd

They are just having a coffee break

 

[Dosco]

Revenue Generation

..and that is all it is.

It is an easy option for the Police to carry out this sort of activity rather than do the harder stuff of addressing crime and the BIG issue of YOB culture stamping down hard on theses piles of excrement that blight this once pleasant land, feel better now

So why oh why will plod not address the issue of speeding coupled with atrocious driving in and around built up areas by shoestring **** faces driving Boom Boxes and scaring the hell out of every one else and in many cases causing accidents.Try remonstrating with these no-brainers and all you get is a mouthful of unintelligible four letter abuse. That felt really good

After struggling with a serious illness for ten years and now working very hard to climb back into life my 21 yr old daughter has just had her first driving lesson and after 45 mins behind the wheel the instructor took her onto a fast dual carriageway and told her to increase her speed upto the max allowed - 70 mph to "see how it felt" It scared the hell out of her and in her words "I was unhappy at the suggestion and told him so but he said that is how we teach people today and it is something that you have to get used to very quickly, any case I have dual controls so have no fear" after a mile or so she slowed down and asked to return home, he thought that was "strange as most young people loved the idea of their first taste of speed" but told her "you will make a really good driver" and "when can we book the next lesson"

All that from a so called renowned National learner driving school!

Sorry about that rant folks - now't to do with Mercs etc but it is just one of the many motoring and associated things that are really urinating me off these days

 

[MIW615]

..and that is all it is.

It is an easy option for the Police to carry out this sort of activity rather than do the harder stuff of addressing crime and the BIG issue of YOB culture stamping down hard on theses piles of excrement that blight this once pleasant land, feel better now

So why oh why will plod not address the issue of speeding coupled with atrocious driving in and around built up areas by shoestring **** faces driving Boom Boxes and scaring the hell out of every one else and in many cases causing accidents.Try remonstrating with these no-brainers and all you get is a mouthful of unintelligible four letter abuse.

Agree totally with above - priororities all wrong

 

[television]

I agree with Dosco as well priorities are all wrong

 

[angus falconer]

yet cars can spank up and down my cul-de-sac all day a night with kids playing on either side and the police dont care! ah the injustice

This bugs me too - I am on a residential street (family houses, gardens, dogs, kids). At least half of the 90-odd homes have kids living in them.

But it's also one of the only streets round here that has no speed bumps. It's also wide and it's not congested. Most drivers are sensible and trundle dowan at 20-30mph. Unfortunately I also get quite a few haring past at 50, 60 or even 70mph. Mostly male, usually but not always young.

I am told that becoause "no one has died yet" that this is not a priority street for traffic calming.

Hmmmmmm.......but woe betide you if you do 52mph past a camera in the 50mph limiy on the A40 just down the road.....

 

[MIW615]

Hmmmmmm.......but woe betide you if you do 52mph past a camera in the 50mph limiy on the A40 just down the road.....

Easy target and easy revenue for the police

 

[Myros]

Dosco

as a former ADI, I assure you the last thing I would do with someone on their very first lesson would be take them up to 70 on a dual carriageway. I'd want a bit more evidence of their ability to cope, rather than an opportunity for early exposure to speed in a strange car ( probably) with a (hopefully) nervous learner. Are you saying they went from ABC ( accelerator -brake-clutch) and switchgear to motoring along at top whack all in an hour.I'm glad I don't teach anymore, and I used to work for the world's biggest school, an anagram of mbs.

My street is narrow, cars parked both sides and room for only one up the middle. 30 seems the slowest I see, and some of the neighbours, who have their own kids, regularly blatt up and down in excess of that. Except when they are behind me. They are then lucky to see 15mph , and they also get some of the most painstaking and accurate manoevering ever while I park, and they have to wait for me to clear the road.