what are the highway patrol call sighns

scottwa2468 · Post by **scottwa2468** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:23 pm

can anyone please tell me the call sighns for the newly formed highway patrol unit that patrols perths freeway system,from memory i think that there are 4 vechles and they have a silver paint job

dazla · Post by **dazla** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:36 pm

Tango Echo mate.

Traffic Enforcement Group.

700-bike
200-car

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:51 am

Silver TE cars with rear spolier (fake SV6's)

TE202-VY II
TE203-VZ
TE204-VY II
TE205-VZ
TE206-VZ

TE212-VY II Although this vehicle is white

Their are a few more TE cars which are with the Breath Analysis section TE207, 209, 210 and 211 I have listed and these are in standard WAPS markings.

If your a member of oz-police-vehicles on yahoo Kyle and myself have posted heaps of these cars of recent.

rgds

Tom

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:11 pm

Tom wrote:Silver TE cars with rear spolier (fake SV6's)

TE202-VY II
TE203-VZ
TE204-VY II
TE205-VZ
TE206-VZ

What's with the cars having the dazzle paintjob? I would have thought TE cars would be best being unmarked, or at least, low profile.

scottwa2468 · Post by **scottwa2468** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:52 pm

im sure the reason they have that paintjob,is for exposure,just to let moterists know they are there

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:54 pm

Or, as is the case in the UK, a silver car fetches more at re-sale than a white one. Hence the trend for British police cars (which are often BMWs or Volvos) to be silver (or indeed many colours other than white).

scottwa2468 · Post by **scottwa2468** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:30 pm

when the minister for police announced the launch of this unit she explained that the main reason that the vechles were that colour and with the additional police markings on each vechle(with the exeption of 1 unmarked vechle) was to make their presence know on the freeways

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:16 am

As already stated by scottwa2468 the TE group have 1 unmarked.

It's a regular around the booze-buses amd I ALWAYS seem to see it with a car pulled over on the side of the road somewhere.

Anyway I think it's call-sign is TE201(?) it's a Martini coloured VY II with VX hub-caps, should be too hard to spot if you know what your looking for.

I posted a pic of it a couple of weeks back on the oz-police-vehicles site.

cheers

Tom

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:22 pm

Steve wrote:Or, as is the case in the UK, a silver car fetches more at re-sale than a white one. Hence the trend for British police cars (which are often BMWs or Volvos) to be silver (or indeed many colours other than white).

I doubt they'd be concerned with that here, as the Police vehicles are leased anyway..

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:15 pm

Yes, but at the end of the lease, the leasing/fleet management company has to realise as much as they can from each 'asset'.

scottwa2468 · Post by **scottwa2468** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:32 pm

not nesseserally steve,we dont know how much the police pay to lease each vechle

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:24 am

From my experience scanning the motoring sections and car-yards for many years now, a white car is ALWAYS worth less than say some of the more 'interesting' colours: green, silver, blues/greys and most certainly black attract far more than a white Commodore.

Just go to somewhere like Phoenix Holden and you'll see what I mean, better still go to the WA Police Auto Auction web-site and you'll very rarely see anything other than a white Commo, the coloured ones don't even seem to make it to Auction, they are that 'popular'.

Tom