From: Rob on
Ret. wrote:
|| Rob wrote:
||| Ret. wrote:
|||||
||||| On one occasion, the location we set up meant that I, as the
||||| stopping officer, had no place to park my police car other than
||||| half on and half off the pavement.
|||
||| That cannot possibly be true, so I suppose you really meant that you
||| parked there because you could.
||
|| It was a long road with no side roads off. I suppose I could have
|| parked half a mile away and walked back.

Well there you go then, that's very likely what you or your colleagues would
have said to anyone else complaining that 'there was nowhere else to park'.

--
Rob


From: Peter Crosland on
"Chris Hills" <chaz(a)chaz6.com> wrote in message
news:hunv7j$7l4$1(a)chaz6.eternal-september.org...
> On 09/06/2010 12:42, Adrian wrote:
>> Chris Hills<chaz(a)chaz6.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
>> were
>> saying:
>>
>>> The aim of the cameras is to make people drive safely.
>>
>> Is it? I thought it was to make people drive at a legal speed. You're not
>> confusing the two, are you?
>
> The government calls them safety cameras. Staying within the legal speed
> limit is one aspect of safe driving.
>
>>> I would disagree that helping that aim by warning people to watch their
>>> speed is obstructing justice.
>>
>> Deliberately standing so that the banner blocks the view of the camera
>> certainly would be.
>
> They would have to admit that the cameras are there for revenue raising,
> then, since the van carries no warning about speed or any aspect of
> driving safely.

A number of people have already been convicted for obstruction by doing
similar things to what you suggest. Al the CPS have to do is prove that the
police were acting lawfully and that the defendant was obstructing them in
that task.

Peter Crosland


From: Ret. on
Rob wrote:
> Ret. wrote:
>>> Rob wrote:
>>>> Ret. wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On one occasion, the location we set up meant that I, as the
>>>>>> stopping officer, had no place to park my police car other than
>>>>>> half on and half off the pavement.
>>>>
>>>> That cannot possibly be true, so I suppose you really meant that
>>>> you parked there because you could.
>>>
>>> It was a long road with no side roads off. I suppose I could have
>>> parked half a mile away and walked back.
>
> Well there you go then, that's very likely what you or your
> colleagues would have said to anyone else complaining that 'there was
> nowhere else to park'.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/tpm/tmaportal/tmafeatures/tmapart6/secparkingfactsheets/parkingonpavements


"There is currently no national legislation banning the parking of all
vehicles on the pavement, due to the wide range of circumstances and
locations where pavement parking occurs. For example in some narrow
residential roads with a lack of off-street parking provision, drivers have
little option but to park on the pavement to avoid causing traffic hazards.
The Government has no plans at present to introduce new legislation
specifically aimed at banning pavement parking on a national scale."

--
Kev

From: Brimstone on

"Michael Swift" <mike.swift(a)yeton.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1WMxoLAEe6DMFw15(a)ntlworld.com...
> In article <e3XbXgMX15DMFwiz(a)g3ohx.demon.co.uk>, Ian Jackson <ianREMOVET
> HISjackson(a)g3ohx.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Most cars do indeed slow down if they get flashed by a 'slow down' sign
>>- especially if it shows their true speed. One of those is probably far
>>more effective than any number of speed cameras (and probably a lot
>>cheaper).
>
> Cheaper to instal maybe but they don't collect money.
>
And there's no money spent on sending out FPNs and chasing people through
the courts etc.


From: Brimstone on

"Chris Hills" <chaz(a)chaz6.com> wrote in message
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> Near where I live a mobile police speed camera van frequently parks on a
> grass verge, on public property. Would it be legal to protest in the form
> of holding a sign or banner, perhaps with the words "Speed kills",
> deliberately behind the van to block the view of the camera?

How do speed cameras protest? They can hardly march on Parliament.