[steveo]

A CHP officer once told me 'I don't have to follow the law, I have to enforce the law'

[Bulldawg Fan]

I am in a position to have influence in this state. I make it a point to report speeding law enforcement cars when no emergency seems to be occuring. Yesterday, I got behind an unmarked car that turned his lights on to move cars out of his way. After about a day of research on the tag, it turns out the car belonged to the State Police and the driver was an commanding officer who was late for an appointment at the headquarters. It was a clear abuse of authority and the Major I discussed it with knew my feelings when we finished.

You cant enforce the law if you dont obey the law.

[Gideon Reader]

In the very limited numbers of years that I was a uniformed Municipal Police Officer, approximately five, I wrote 29 traffic summonses. Those were in conjunction with traffic accidents, and for Reckless or Careless driving offenses.
I had little interest in traffic matters, and was much more interested in felony suppression and arrests.
I wrote hundreds of parking summonses in support of that interest.(parking violations fix a vehicle in a particular place as a particular time and are a useful tool in investigations)

Stories like these support the theory that all things dealing with the Brits will at some point in the story become odd, weird or perverse.

I personally think the Brit police system of videoing EVERYTHING is expensive, and NOT much good at crime suppression. Being able to ID a bad guy after he kicks the crap out of Granny for her dole check is NOT good law enforcement work.