Police have allways come up with great excuses when caught out for doing the wrong thing ,............ lets see what they say about this one ?

Common Trevor / Drewman ..................Who was it ?..........

And dont tell us he was helping the farmer by ploughing the field due to the drought . lol lol

http://jalopnik.com/cars/hoon-of-the...ned-326426.php


Cheers
Michael

 

I bet it was part of a police training program to teach farmers how to spot a hoon.

 

One straight out of the "but it seemed like a good idea at the time" exit interview classic files.

Go plod.

 

Guess it wasnt Trevor or Drewman after all

A West Australian police officer has been suspended after he was filmed using a squad car to perform "doughnuts" in a paddock.

The footage, which was posted on YouTube under the title "Good Aussie Cops", shows the police car performing burnouts with lights and sirens blazing.

An unknown number of onlookers can be heard cheering in the background.




WA Assistant Commissioner Graeme Lienert today said the driver had been identified as a 30-year-old first-class constable based near Geraldton.

The female passenger, who was found to be the officer's 25-year-old wife and herself a constable at the unit, will not be reprimanded.

The pair performed the stunt at the North Midlands Agriculture Show in September last year at the request of event organisers, Mr Lienert said.

The officer — a trained pursuit driver — is understood to have told investigators he made a significant error in judgement.

"At a time when the road toll in regional WA is high, it is just the wrong message to be sending and inappropriate behaviour," Mr Lienert told the West Australian.

An investigation is now underway as to whether the stunt — carried out on private property — has broken any laws.

The scrutiny comes only a short time after both officers were approved for transfer to Perth.

Cheers
Michael

 

WOW!!! you aussie guys have it figured out!

Catch a street racer whose been postding youtube vids of said racing,
impound his car,
crash it on video(youtube) for all to see what happens to street racers cars......


thats some righteous ******* justice right there!

 

hmmm 101


in NSW that callsign is usually reserved for detectives cars!

I would say that he had a MAJOR lapse in judgement. i wonder what was going on in his head?

"Hey can you guys do a burnout for a show off to the guys?"

"Yeah sure! No problem!"



I think there was a short circuit there somewhere. Common sense sure is is hard to come by in some people...

 

Its unlikely any charges will follow, as it was done on private property and no traffic laws were broken.

The stunt was done on the request of event organisers by a trained WA police pursuit driver.

If there are any discipline issues to follow it will come out of the internal investigation....

 

It is not a public road? oh in the private land.

Then...

In a paddock *(private land)... what is the difference from that to say a skid pan training days?

The only difference is it is a cop car with siren on. Have a image problem in the police part.

*end of my response.

 

I concur with the image problem and common sense should have prevailed, but in fairness we arn't aware of the full circumstances.

To clarify, a highway, road, street, laneway, road reserves, nature strips, footpaths, cycle paths etc are all legally defined as a place where the public may legally drive a motor vehicle. On private property most traffic offences don't apply (e,g, speeding, seat belts) EXCEPT offences such as drink driving or dangerous driving offences. A private road or driveway on a farm might still be technically defined as a road if it is open to the public for driving.

For the purpose of a skid pan or track which is closed to the public, its defined as a private road.

As a point of trivia, its also useful to point out that drink driving offences can be committed anywhere, even in your locked garage!

 

Struth! that's a bit rough -- even if there's no car in it?

 

Cough, I think you'll find the car/bike/pushie bit is a necessary element of the offence. ;-)

 

Good pick up Dave...sorry Timbo...you set yourself up for that one....

 

youd be surprised how many people we get for DUI riding home on their pushies after a night on the sauce...

 

Great, it's obviously a sign that we have too many pigs in the pen! *oink oink*