New Police blitz

Eric...if this sort of tax and revenue raising was given the shove, and the young and over zealous police were given the same amount of instruction on how to treat fellow humans, we may feel like we have a police force worth supporting. I have no problem with a definate unroadworthy vehicle being put off the road due to safety of others, but I have heard and seen this "nit picking" garbage before, and I think it stinks. And if you think this is because I have had something bad happen to me ......your wrong, I was a Copper for ten years, and I,m looking at the type of treatment people are getting from the "type" of police that we are now have and I hang my head in shame. I am totally ashamed and regret that I ever belonged to this group of people. There sure needs to be a big change in the training of police and treament of the public, before I couldsupport them in any way. Uther.

i wonder who could have started this crap now let me see whose toes have we stood on in the last couple of weeks i suppose its a bit hard to put a canary on a greenies push bike and they woudnt drive smoke burning old vw,s etc out in the bush and drop blokes of wood with nails rthru so it must be those nasty people who have been out enjoying the bush in there well kept (well most) 4bs

steve

Gob , don't bet on it on the news the other night a bloke in QLD. booked for ansewering his mobile phone on his pushbike. Where will it end !!!

GOB has a point about the Combi panel vans I think there. I wonder how many of them would actually be legal on the road, let alone what they may be smoking or where their plot may be. Nice forest celaring I reckon......

It is a change on the persecution of speedsters though. There has been an acknowledgement of the number of accidents with people with drugs in their bloodstream but they seldom seem to seek that group of people. I guess I had better watch out for my blood pressure tablets

I wonder how long before they actually begin to look at crime and criminals.

No one would be upset if they were targeting unsafe, unroadworthy vehicles, picking on the likes of mud flaps and dirty lenses is nit picking.
I recently had a conversation with an officer who complained that young people did not respect the authority of the police force any more, and this upset him.
As a guy in his 50's the above Wombat examples to me simply show that the reason for the loss of respect has a lot to do with the actions they take and way they behave.
REgards
Joe

Nothing more than PAYBACK for the Meeting the other week....

They will get us out of WOMBAT one way or another.

Should arrange for 1200 BOG STOCK 4wds to head there next weekend and really shaft them.

truckster hit the nail on the head im afraid .
thats is the reason (unfortunately ) why i will stay away from wombat for the time being (unless im in a hippie van ).
like us prison guard troops and cia im not paranoid (am i ) but i think vic police got this order from a higher source.

I was up Mt Disapointment a few months ago and the cops and the Parks people were chasing motor bikes for recreational rego and road worthy stuff.
I stopped on my own account for a talk to them no hassle to me.
They said they do this on a regualr basis at all state forests etc.

Maybe they finally got around to looking at 4wd's.
Maybe this was prompted by the higher visability that the CFM proccess has created in this area.
Maybe they just decided to target all recreational vehicles including 4wd's.
Maybe they will continue to do this at Wombat and elsewhere.
Maybe they have decided to target 4wd's as they have not done so before.
Maybe it was just the turn of Wombat.

We will never know, but they can pull us up at anytime and any place, the bottom line is they have that right and the responsibility to ensure all vehicles are in a road worthy condition.

There is nothing we can do about any of it except to ensure our vehicle's complie.

It won't stop me. I will not bow to pressure from any source, I will continue to head tp Wombat as usual otherwise the bastards have caused us to bend to there pressure. And I for one will not do that.

And no I am not a cop nor am I a lover of the attitude of quite a number of police, but unfortuantly we do need them in our society.
Who do you call when you are in trouble ?

You'll probaly find that this is an attempt to get rid of the problem issues - especially illegal use of unregistered trail bikes - and as part of this operation the police usually stop all vehicles and do random breath tests etc.

The police and rangers have done blitzs like this in the Wattagans SF just near Newcastle and has resulted in a reduction in unregistered noisey bikes and reduced stolen vehicles being driving by drunk idiots around the place in the forest. Most people I have spoken to up here have thought the efforts were very positive.

You'll probaly find that this is an attempt to get rid of the problem issues - especially illegal use of unregistered trail bikes - and as part of this operation the police usually stop all vehicles and do random breath tests etc.

The police and rangers have done blitzs like this in the Wattagans SF just near Newcastle and has resulted in a reduction in unregistered noisey bikes and reduced stolen vehicles being driving by drunk idiots around the place in the forest. Most people I have spoken to up here have thought the efforts were very positive.