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I saw a policeman today driving at about 30MPH and using his mobile phone.............?

should I report it I got the registration?
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Some details for my american friends.

It is illegal in uk to use cell phones whilst driving

A registraion is the plate


    




Crazy
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Get a life and live a little he was only ordering his lunch, what's the problem?


ASHLEY
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If you report it and then you were caught using a mobile, they could throw the book at you knowing that you had no defence


blondie
So report him, that is wrong obviously they have never heard of hands free, or blue tooth ear sets!


Night Shadow
hey you should come to south africa! we have that all the time. Our paramedics and ambulance drivers do it too!


FRAGINAL-NOYPI
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Report the policeman in the nearest police station where you saw him violating traffic rules. If you do not want to be identified, just send an anonymous letter. The Internal Affairs will investigate the offender whom you reported.


Boaz
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To me, it takes a person with a particularly unusual mindset to assume that a police driving ar 30 MPH speaking on his cell phone is breaking the law. Since you are obviously a very civic-minded person, please drive around all your neighborhoods and report those who throw cigarette butts on the street, and anything else you see illegal going on. very good!

Boaz.


pops
No ! Nothing will be done to the cop , but you will be hasseled from now on.Remember,cops already hate the working person,don't make it worse on yourself.


MissionGrey
Why? Jugde other as you want to be judged.


Mark J
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It may not have been a mobile phone. The new(ish) Tetra secure digital radio system now used ny the police has handsets which are very similar to Mobiles.

Still if you want your life to be full of unecceasry excitement, being stopped at odd hours, aasked to assist with police enquiries, then go on, report then incident and see what happens.


A True Gentleman
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Waste of time...I live near a police station and you see them frequently driving highly dangerously to/from work, cutting up traffic as they go. Who's going to stop them? Forget it. Accept that they are above the law and get on with your life! Can anyone tell me... in the history of the police has anyone of them reported themselves for dangerous driving?


defender
Forget it! As you have no other witness, nobody will believe you! You will just create one very powerful enemy of yours!

While policemen may not always be right, they are always policemen!


Thesmileyman
Would you report anyone else? If the police man just says no I didn't what will happen? I'm not saying its right what he did but you can't do anything about it so save yourself the hassle and get on with life.


inder_4u_1983
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you definately inform police but make sure you not contact the same policeman by mistake. hahahahahha


mad john
It's not worth the price of the phone call, if the police can shoot an Innocent person and be back at work within a few weeks, if the police can allow someone to die in custody and nothing is done, do you really think that reporting an officer for using a mobile phone while driving is going to result in any action?


David T
Is it against the law in your area to use the cell phone and drive?

Do you visit that town frequently? (If yes, drop it)


top gun
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yes if it was one of us an we had to answer it for an emergency we would be fined, yet some of us on the road could probably drive better with a mobile phone to our ear than what most old people can drive at all. i know this goes off the subject of the question but i do think that some rules of the law are completely stupid when it comes to driving. Back to the question yes nothin will get done anway.


Small Pebble
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There's about as much chance of him getting prosecuted as there is of you winning the lottery.


Jendralus
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the police guy is human too....stop being a ***** and go on with your life man.....rules are made to be broken....


Pete Sweet
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It wont matter either way if you report him or not...

You can't prove it, it's his word against yours and it'll never come to anything more than that.


Whisper4691
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Yes as a law was being broken


Pat
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definately report it....

i tell u they take the piss...i caught stopped once for using my mobile phone...ended up losing my license for 6 months....

cops take the piss....

report it


fem40_98
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Nothing is going to happen to him anyway.


puddykat01
why should they be exempt . yes go ahead and report it . bet u dont get anywhere ??


eriverpipe
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Hell, yes... he'd report you if it was the other way around


quarterton2001
no, so what. get a life and grow up.


willows
absolutely...they may work for the law but they are certainly not above it!!!!


slicktop80
Police officers are subject to the same laws as anyone else. Admittedly, the law may not be enforced equally, but it is written to apply equally. Laws vary from state to state and city to city. Unless prohibited specifically by ordinance or law, and unless he was exhibiting reckless behavior that could be associated with his using a cell phone while driving, he may not have actually broken any laws. My department has a strict rule about operating a vehicle on duty and talking on a cell phone. You can get cut off at the knees if you do talk on a cell phone without a handsfree device, and even then it has to be directly related to your job. God help the officer who has an accident while on a cell phone. If you feel it was reckless, then call and ask to speak to the senior officer on duty concerning a complaint. You may not (well, probably not) get anywhere. Most departments do keep a log of complaints, even if it does not go into a personel file, and these logs can be accessed to establish a past history of bad behavior by an officer, and are legally discoverable in a lawsuit. It all depends on whether or not the officer you lodge the complaint with is scrupulous enough to log the incident.


yougotsmith
you could but it wont make any difference,they will say it was a police radio or something along those lines.


MICHAEL P
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Well if you report him, it will only be his word against yours unless you have photographic evidence and an independent witness. Hey, we see these kind of negligent drivers every day and personally they make me cringe as they are an accident waiting to happen.
But if you do report this police person, don't forget to mention the bacon sarnie that he had in the other hand, the cup of coffee between his legs, the map on the steering wheel and the open aftershave bottle that he was just about to splash on ..........


a c
definatly, the chances are that in the car he was driving he could of gone hands free


churie78
Grass him up.





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