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Thread ID: 137690	2014-08-08 03:58:00	Are the police allowed to speed?	Roscoe (6288)	PC World Chat

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1381182	2014-08-08 08:42:00	It is only dangerous when the peasants do it. As long as the Police involved are members in good standing of the National Party, sweet as. (Note: For the purpose of this rule a person in the car not being a Member of Te Nats is entitled to a seat in the speeding car under the coat-tail rule.) And the likes of Helen Clark was also allowed to speed and got away with it .. You know. Going to a rugby match is more important and doing the speed limit..	paulw (1826)
1381183	2014-08-08 11:36:00	I don't know about the rest but I know the volunteer ambulance services like St Johns have no legal defence for speeding or breaking the road rules (which is not quite the same as "not allowed"). You'd have to be a special kind of plonker to pull up an ambulance or issue a ticket to the driver though. I'd expect any volunteer service would have the same restrictions. As for the police I'm sure they are aloud to within official guidelines. When we had separate Police and MOT services there used to be stories floating around about them giving each other tickets occasionally though (prob urban myths). I used to work with a guy who was following a speeding police car through a private road and getting away with it one time until he decided passing it would be fun, (this was in the days when speeding was the domain of the MOT for the most part but police could still issue tickets) some people deserve what they get.	dugimodo (138)
1381184	2014-08-08 22:57:00	They are not allowed to "speed" but are allowed to travel something like 30-40ks faster than the posted speed limit when heading to the scene of a crime or other emergency. There are a whole bunch of police regulations regarding how fast they can travel when in pursuit of another speeding car and under what conditions they can initiate a pursuit - mostly I think they just wait for the stupid idiots to crash and injure themselves before they turn up at the scene and mop up the mess. Thanks for that, Webdevguy. Cleared that up. I was not aware that they were allowed to exceed the speed limit. I reckon you'd change your tune pretty damned fast if you or a loved one was lying on the road in a pool of blood while an ambo cruised to the accident site at a leisurely 50kph, or your house was on fire and you were told the Brigade would be there as soon as they could, but the traffic queues are pretty bad today. Likewise if you'd called 111 because there was a maniac trying to beat down your door, but the Police despatcher said 'yeah mate, they'll be there in 15 if they get a good run of green lights and don't get pulled over for speeding! Let common sense reign............. Cheers Billy 8-{) I did not say that they were not allowed to go through red lights. You sometimes see them drive on the wrong side of the road to get around traffic stopped at the lights so red lights won't stop them, but they do have to go carefully with diligence. I'm certain that they would not be pulled over for speeding but that does not change the fact that they are not allowed to speed.	Roscoe (6288)
1381185	2014-08-09 00:56:00	I know that in some countries Fire Engines can control the traffic lights. Is this the case in NZ or not?	mzee (3324)
1381186	2014-08-09 01:07:00	In Dunedin I believe at least Ambulance & Fire can control the lights outside their respective stations, but they don't have light control around the city.	Alex B (15479)
1381187	2014-08-09 01:37:00	I know that in some countries Fire Engines can control the traffic lights. Is this the case in NZ or not? There was a recent article in the Herald reporting on how a central operations centre is able to manually control traffic lights to allow smoother traffic flows. The extension of that capability is the ability to facilitate the movement of emergency vehicles - and act as blocks to help slow or stop vehicles being pursued by police. Not that a pursued vehicle is going to stop at a red light, if it can't get past other vehicles stopped ahead, it can't get through :thumbs:	WalOne (4202)
1381188	2014-08-09 09:29:00	This article (www.nzherald.co.nz)from the Northern Advocate seems answer some questions regarding Police speeding. Officers can have fines waived if they provide a justified reason for speeding, under the Land Transport Road User Rule 2004. Not all police officers have speeding fines waived when caught speeding while on duty.	Bobh (5192)
1381189	2014-08-10 22:38:00	Possibly the most stupid, obviously anti police question posted ? Of course they need to speed, just to get to crime scenes, fast . Should we instead have them spend 30% of the day stuck in traffic , that will help stop crime for sure . Just perhaps they were on the way to a crime scene when they were wizzing past you .	1101 (13337)
1381190	2014-08-14 02:10:00	I think they are allowed. I've witnessed police cars over-speeding many times. They must have been chasing over-speeders or were just in a hurry.	ruellesmith (17277)
1381191	2014-08-14 02:52:00	Of course they need to speed, just to get to crime scenes, fast. The bloke in front could use almost the same excuse, except he's leaving the crime scene to avoid an overcrowding OSH hazard breach. ;)	R2x1 (4628)
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