I saw a police officer driving whilst texting on a mobile phone?

Question

The other day whilst I was on the school run, a police officer passed me and I couldnt help but notice that he was texting on a mobile phone, his head was down and was not looking at the road in front!! given the fact that the mobile phone laws had chaged earlier in the week, I fee that something should be done about this.

It was rush hour traffic and there was lots of school children about.
Now had this of been a member of the public they would have been stopped, fined and 3 points added to their license.

What do you reckon? I have writtten a letter of complaint to the cheif superintendent but will this taken seriously??

Answer 1

Hi!

OMG!!!

That's bad!!

Yep, as long as you got all the details such as the car reg and the location, your complaint WILL be taken VERY seriously, and the officer in question will have a HUGE amount of paperwork to carry out. I.e., where he was,what he was doing, why he was doing it - it goes on and on!

Thank you for being such a committed member of the community!

Answer 2

you do not could be going at more suitable than 0mph for it to be unlawful to apply a hand-held telephone apprantly, regardless of the truth that in case your in a jam or at lighting fixtures or crawling in site visitors at a snailspace, issues can nonetheless take position, the site visitors could suddenley flow or the lighting fixtures could suddenely replace or something may be coming up to take position by technique of the time you do flow etc so sure unfortunatly the in reality legal way is both on a handsfree or pull over (right into a layby, vehicle park, driveway or the aspect of the line without being unlawful or causing blockage, inconvienence, threat etc)

Answer 3

In practice the British Police are above the law (Does the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes ring any bells?) If you did report him, be prepared for a vendetta against you and your family by your local constabulary. The police look after their own. My advice to you is to just forget you saw anything and just accept there's nothing you can do about it. Remember, this is Britain we live in.

Answer 4

The police should take every letter of complaint seriously as they are the ones we look to to withhold the law, and if they are not doing their job properly then they should be reprimanded.

Answer 5

What do you do for a living? I bet whatever it is you don't face constant criticism from one half of the public for what you do and criticism from the other half for what you don't do. I watched an episode of Road Wars last night where numerous drivers were pulled over for talking on their phones or for not wearing their seatbelts. The Officers involved used their discretion and gave suitable advice to the offending drivers instead of issuing them with fixed penalty notices. Now that is good policing. It meant that the Officers weren't going to be tied up with paperwork for hours on end so that they could carry on with their regular duties. But I would guess that if such a thing happened to you you'd have a b****h and a moan about being delayed on your journey rather than thanking the Officers for not asking you to fork over sixty quid. Also, don't you know that Police Officers are trained to drive at a higher standard than ordinary members of the public? Get a life! Oh, and to all those that will give me a thumbs down after reading this, thanks.

Answer 6

This issue has to be taken seriously by the Chief superintendent, and should be investigated, whether you get an outcome is a different story.

Answer 7

nothing will happen. just remember there are good poilce officers and bad police officers. in the same way that good police officers sometimes use discretionary courtesy towards us and sometimes go that extra mile to help and bad officers that are drunk on power try to throw their weight around and are just bastards, the trouble is you never know which one you got unitl its too late. nothing will happen though im sorry to say and if the offending officer gets hold of your complaint you name and car reg will go on the 'list' and you can expect to be pulled over for a 'routine' check in your car, he or she will remember you complaint

Answer 8

Police are allowed to do whatever they want. We turned in a bartender/owner for being drunker then the patrons and were told he is over 21. This is illegal but if you know the cop it is OK. I have seen more cops turn on their siren to get through red lights than I can count. Then there is my favorite when you see their police cars sitting in front of their house for hrs, can you prove that they didn't come home and leave and go back. No, but you know they sat at home for hrs. Then there is the sitting around reading the paper or sitting by another cop talking. They are pretty much useless, every time I have had to call one for something I always get the "we can't do anything about it, you have to go to the Dist. Justice" well that cost money and nothing gets done there either. I live in a big city and our cops are pretty corrupt if you ask me. One of our higher up cops just went to court because she got in trouble for turning in corruption to the Mayor. He didn't do anything about the corruption, but at least she won her case in court.

Answer 9

"whilst"...

I love the accent you guys have. I do find it interesting that you use the word, "reckon", too.

I really like the way ya'll talk. Honestly.

Texting or talking on a cell phone while driving is dangerous.

Answer 10

you may as well just forget about it i'm afraid.
i witnessed a police car reach some traffic lights on red, put his sirens/blue lights on, then the minute he got through the junction, turn them off. i phoned in a complaint but they just said "he probably got an emergency call which was cancelled a few moments later.
when have you ever heard an "independant police complaints" investigation come down against the police.
i never have.