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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:34 am
by Tom
Are the Police Escort vehicles not manned by Police then?
The reason I ask this is that I saw TE453 out near Gidgee on the Toodyay rd yesterday and couldn't help but notice it had 'Traffic Escort' down the sides but 'Police' wasn't anywhere on the 4WD.
cheers
Tom
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:53 am
by dave
Tom wrote:Are the Police Escort vehicles not manned by Police then?
The reason I ask this is that I saw TE453 out near Gidgee on the Toodyay rd yesterday and couldn't help but notice it had 'Traffic Escort' down the sides but 'Police' wasn't anywhere on the 4WD.
cheers
Tom
Traffic escort drivers are fully sworn police officers
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:03 pm
by Kinetic
The was a 316 in cannington last night
Car v Motorcycle
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:34 pm
by Walks
dave wrote:Tom wrote:Are the Police Escort vehicles not manned by Police then?
The reason I ask this is that I saw TE453 out near Gidgee on the Toodyay rd yesterday and couldn't help but notice it had 'Traffic Escort' down the sides but 'Police' wasn't anywhere on the 4WD.
cheers
Tom
Traffic escort drivers are fully sworn police officers
They used to be. not any more.
Walks
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:40 pm
by dave
Walks wrote:dave wrote:Tom wrote:Are the Police Escort vehicles not manned by Police then?
The reason I ask this is that I saw TE453 out near Gidgee on the Toodyay rd yesterday and couldn't help but notice it had 'Traffic Escort' down the sides but 'Police' wasn't anywhere on the 4WD.
cheers
Tom
Traffic escort drivers are fully sworn police officers
They used to be. not any more.
Sorry then, i used to drive a pilot vehicle so they must have stopped using police after I left
Walks
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:52 pm
by godinoz
They started using civies about 12-18mths ago. They wear a brown uniform with a ?traffic warden? patch on their sleeves and baseball style cap. Be very careful as there is one of them who still thinks he is a sworn officer and keeps pulling cars over!!
An ex police officer who use to be in that section once described their powers as that of a lolypop lady at the school crossing( he was laughing when he said it).
They still do have sworn officers do jobs for them. Use to use guys from VES and I believe they now borrow guys from TOGs.
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:18 pm
by Tom
It's very misleading for the public.
I wouldn't of thought that Escorts would of been civvies.
If their vehciles aren't been driven by sworn officers then they should have a different design of stickers and not blue and red lightbars to confuse the average Joe public.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:26 pm
by godinoz
As much as I dislike them, they are there not to protect the oversize load, but to protect the public. Joe Blogs will 9 out of 10 times pay attention to a police vehicle more than he would pay attention to a pilot vehicle. No disrespect to you pilots out there...
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:24 pm
by Walks
This is just god damn unlucky.
Man killed by flying roo
Walks.
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:36 pm
by chrissss
bummer
chris
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:28 pm
by Zebedee
Wow. The pic of the car ...
What a wreck.
And how unlucky for the motorist to be killed like that.
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:11 pm
by ZO100_marto
Zebedee wrote:
Wow. The pic of the car ...
What a wreck.
And how unlucky for the motorist to be killed like that.
Yep the first thing you're taught in country driving is to NEVER swerve. Very unlucky end result
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:45 am
by JG-103
What a freak accident, imagine, seeing the kangeroo being hit by this land cruiser and watchin it fly straight for your windscreen. How unlucky.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:06 pm
by Ludacris
ZO100_marto wrote:
Yep the first thing you're taught in country driving is to NEVER swerve. Very unlucky end result
Unfortunately didn't work for this poor bloke.... Bloody big Kangaroo though
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:23 pm
by dave
Tonkin Hwy Nthbnd, 400m North of Kelvin rd
Possible 316-Car rollover