Speeding cop cars

[Bill]

Just wondering fi police cars are subject to any speed restrictions when they are under lights?

I was on the ummm.... freeway that goes past wonderland, on Sunday and was overtaken by an unmarked car doing at least twice what I was, maybe a bit more.

[Merli]

By law, they're not allowed to speed if their flashing lights aren't on.

But who's going to stop them? You? Other police colleagues? I don't think so.

[Driver]

i saw a marked cop car fogging it down a 50 road for no reason up to a set of lights that were red - i turn onto the road behind the cop - and when the lights turnd green it took of normally and went around the speed limit..

interesting

[Bill]

By law, they're not allowed to speed if their flashing lights aren't on.

But who's going to stop them? You? Other police colleagues? I don't think so.

As I said they were "under lights" so yeah their lights were on, and siren as well.

Just curious as to what they were actually allowed to do speed wise.

Whatever they feel like?

[chaos]

i believe they can only do a certain speed if it goes over the limit its deemed unsafe in their standards and will call it off

[Black R32]

I was on my way back from inverloch on boxing day and i was following a marked cop car about 3 cars back and he was in a 70 zone doin 120

[Merli]

As I said they were "under lights" so yeah their lights were on, and siren as well.

Just curious as to what they were actually allowed to do speed wise.

Whatever they feel like?

Oh sorry...

I think when they're under lights, they can speed as long as it's safe.

Also in a chase, I think they have to call it off after a certain speed... 180km/h comes to mind, but I think it's a lot lower than that...

[Black R32]

no lights

[nuffin_werks]

well i was on a lonely hiway not so long ago ( doing 100km/hr) and this cop car came the other way with a radar on , nothing happened . about 5 mins later this copper caught up to me and sat behind me for like 5 mins , i was starting to get a little nervy by this, when all off a sudden he puts his disco lights on and roars past me with a big smile on his face and belts down the road chasing thin air ! about 5 mins or so later i seen him with disco lights off, driven at about 95km/hr just cruisin were i followed the faaaaark head all the way to the next town ..... all he was doing was havin a play . now if i did that sort of thing , id get thrown the book at me ..... this is kinda unfair in my opinion but hey , what can i do about it .... oh this happen in QLD

[Bill]

Oh sorry...

I think when they're under lights, they can speed as long as it's safe.

Also in a chase, I think they have to call it off after a certain speed... 180km/h comes to mind, but I think it's a lot lower than that...

ahhh ok.

They were doing at least twice what I was so 220+

[VIPERGTSR01]

they would be in shit for doin that speed

[unwritten law]

yeah i have seen some silly things from coppas. was waiting at a set of lights one day to turn, and they were on the other side turning the other way. They didnt wanna wait any longer so they stuck the sirens on to do an illegal u turn and hauled ass up the road and shut the sirens off about 100m up the road. This was in browns plains in brisbane....

[JimX]

Cops can do whatever they like with or without lights. They just get into more trouble if they cause an accident without lights on. Sometimes it's necessary, for example to not alert a suspect that they are chasing. Don't bother complaining to anyone about cops speeding without lights on, it will get you nowhere because they are allowed to do it.

One of the stupidest things I've seen a cop do though is bust a ride buddy of mine who had just passed a slow moving car over double lines in front of us. We were on bikes so this wasn't dangerous at all, although I don't do it myself. The cop was coming the other way and did a u-turn across the same double lines which was a LOT more dangerous than my mate's manoeuver. I and several cars had to brake heavily to avoid t-boning him.

My mate copped the fine on the chin, but if he had contested it, I would have gone to court to say that the cop nearly caused a major accident in the process.

[GTR R35]

I had a cop do atleast 100 in a 60 zone at archer street, chatswood. I was doing the speed limit and he ran a red light and belted up behind me. We stopped right outside the chatswood copshop. He asked for my license would not talk to me and wrote me a ticket for having "foglights on". It was wet and dark, and my manual for a oz 91 VR4 said clearly they were driving lights. I argued with him for 30 mins and he was calling me fen this and fen that and claiming he was x hwy cop....i could tell. Anyway I took it to court and the fat a..hole was there and copped a assraping from the magistrate, as i told them about the manner in which he drove and treated me. I won because he wrote foglights and they were listed as driving lights.

Mal

[DJ984]

There are some conditions...

They MUST slow down at all intersections, an the limits depend on the surroundings.... like, a street would have a different limit to the freeway, for obvious reasons.....

[CerealKiller]

I've heard that they call off a chase at 160km/h

[Brody]

I thought they at least always needed lights, though not sirens, as listed because it alerts the people theyre trying to get.

Ive seen a hwy do a u'ie, scream up to the p-plater civic in front of me full of chicks. They were probably doing round 20k over, so thats well and good. The thing is, instead of trailing behind them with lights/sirens, he drove next to them, and cut them off the road. They weren't trying to run it, she paniced and locked up, he slammed his breaks causing every1 behind him to skid to a stop as well. Seriosuly couldn't beleive it.

[hungry6]

I saw a police going skidding off the rd next to a mate house , he was obviously speeding for no apparent reason, while stuck in the ditch and some minor damage he approached us for assistant, as a law abbiding citizen as i am, my reply was "no as we weren't legally train to tow or push car, but we can verify to your sargent that u were excessively speeding at point of impact." haha and someone else from the group yelled out "high speed low IQ".

I no longer drive down that street, lol.

[njs]

I've heard that they call off a chase at 160km/h

Talking to a cop I know about this, he said that its usually up to the shift supervisor as to when they call off a chase for being to dangerous there no set speed limit.

[Guest RedLineGTR]

oh nice time to test out that new 300 km/h nismo speedo...haha...cops will do what they want as they always have.