Dyfed/Powys Police at their finest - Bikers stopped for going too slow!
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- A funny take on being stopped by Dyfed/Powys Police for going too slow on our motorbikes!
This is where the power of CZcams comes in to expose this waste of Police resources, surely in 2024 (OK this happened in 2023) the Police have got better things to be doing?
Just one point to answer a few comments, the camera is fitted to my mirror, I’m not holding it!
I don’t think it’d be possible to ride and hold a camera without crashing👍
Enjoy. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Rural single lane road. Free roaming sheep on the road… but you’re going too slow. Police man is a prat.
Not a Prat, has an agenda.
Police was upset you were disturbing his girlfriends. (We call them sheep)
Would the cops stop a pedal cyclist for going too slow???
They all are !
A WELSH PRAT
Good to see the Welsh police are as big a waste of time as English police
Dyfed/Powys police are the worst, a bunch of wankers. So yeah, just like the English police.... 😂
DIFFERENT HEADS OF THE SAME SNAKE
sane here in scotland
We have police in England?
Since when did Wales succeed? They are English...joined at the hip... bored and pick on bikes. I was 16 in 1979 living in Cornwall ... obviously nothing has changed. Small minded and badly educated country plod. What a waste of tax payers very hard earnt money.
How sad is that. Retired police officer of 31yrs I had a few oddballs to manage but he takes the biscuit, the whole packet. What a complete t....! There was no reason to issue a ticket, having stopped you, that is two sensible riders he has now successfully alienated a huge section of the motoring public against the police. His bosses need to have a word with him. Perhaps you should show the video to the police to demonstrate he ignored some clear offences to pick on bikers. Shame on him, you showed calm restraint well done you.
It seems that most coppers with any sense have, like you, retired or left the force.
@@phillipgriffiths9624 Still here, still trying. Not traffic, mind.
You know the Police have lost all respect when even a middle class couple are back-chatting at how daft the cop is being.
Is this in the same Wales that introduced 20mph limits to slow traffic down to reduce accidents?
Brilliant comment! That topic is worth a video in its own right👍
@coilinmiller LMFHO brilliant comment 😂
Yes the same wales that have now changed their minds on it
Brilliant just brilliant point
They want their fine money, one way or the other….🤬
100% KNOB like 99% of the police !
a cpl years ago i watched 6 or so youths break into a building site and get upto no good with the plant. i couldnt get through to my local nick 1/2 mile away on the non emergency number (went to voice) so i rang 999 to report it, and all that happened was about an hour later a young female hobby bobby took a peak then walked off long after they had finished. total joke, they are unfit for purpose
yes they only employ diverse knobs
Until you have an accident and they have to come and help scrape you off the road, or you are mugged and beaten up and they have to act on your behalf.
@@Tuberesu Better still wait till your being robbed or property stolen and then all they do is give you a bloody Ref Number WTF is the use of that !! They need to remember who pays their wages same as the useless politicians !!!
@@Tuberesu the 1st one the crows would get there 1st, the second 2 they won't attend unless a caucasian white is the perpetrator i am not referring to any old school cops if any left
In 1990 I was pulled one Saturday Morning while travelling at 60mph along the the A55 N.Wales & it was fairly early, around 7am as I was out running in a new GSXR1100L, carrying my wife as pillion - it was an unmarked car & I immediately recognised it as such from the aerials & light clusters in the rear window, I pointed to it while informing my wife & that clearly infuriated the traffic cop - there was no other traffic on the road & I initially approached the car from the inside lane while he was occupying the outer lane travelling around 40mph - I backed off & pulled into the outside lane, flashing my main beam, to which he responded by braking & coming to a stop in the outside lane, holding me behind him - the conversation was heated & he accused me of riding too close to his vehicle (I didn't), I countered with accusing him of baiting me to undertake, his partner calmed things down & I eventually went on my way - he had a brake light out BTW 😐
If a vehicle is hogging the outside lane and going below the speed limit, it’s not undertaking if you pass them on the inside lane if you didn’t specifically switch to that lane to pass them
I had one do that to me once on the A55 on my home from Anglesey. He nearly ran me into the back of a truck as i was going through the newly opened Conwy tunnel. He blocked my overtake by plulling along side as I was a
Preparing to pull across to outside lane (truck doing about 50-55) he effectively stalled me in the inside lane behind the truck. The sort of behaviour you'd expect from boy racers on a Saturday night. Not a police officer. He never pulled me over, but seemed to be on a power trip of some sort.
Utter psychopath.
No such traffic offence as undertaking .... as stated by a traffic police officer running the bike safe course I was on...... you should just have carried on in your lane and overtake the police obviously not exceeding the speed limit
Even his colleague's thought he was a joke and drove off 😂
Yeah, respect to those real police men.
Once they pull you, their massive ego's kick in, must find a fault !
Are they on some form of commission these days.
More faults more bonus.
The police are trained to take charge in all situations unfortunately the interpretation of this can turn them into arrogant idiots and they won’t back down when challenged by intelligence.
This will go on a bit so I apologise in advance but anyway, about 20 years ago I bought a Honda fireblade which was damaged so instead of fitting new lights so I just fitted cheap race fairings. Because there were no front lights on the bike it had a "daytime only mot" which was fine for riding in the summer and track days. One Sunday evening I was riding home when I was stopped by two members of the Norfolk cunstabulary. They stopped me for not having a headlight, my response was obviously "it's not dark" they tried to tell me that it was a legal requirement to have a headlight so I asked them how it passed an mot? They got increasingly mouthy and refused to accept that the bike was perfectly legal and eventually decided to get vosa. By the time vosa got there it was dusk, the guy had a quick look around the bike and said it was fine, the copper even tried to argue with him but eventually had to admit defeat. At this point it was dark, I had no phone signal and I was 20 miles from home so I asked plod what They were going to do about getting me and my bike home and they just shrugged and said it wasn't up to them to get me home! I remembered passing a house about 500 yards back down the road so I pushed the bike down a pitch black country lane and onto the drive, I knocked on the door not knowing what sort of reception I was going to get but the lady of the house answered the door and immediately invited me in. I relayed what had happened to her husband and while I used their phone to call my wife, who by this time assumed I was dead, the guy emptied his van and we loaded my bike in it and he drove me home. On the journey he told me that they'd been burgled several times and police were completely uninterested, even accusing them of insurance fraud on one occasion. When we got to my house he helped me get the bike out, came inside for a cuppa and helped passify the missus them left refusing to take a penny from me, not even to cover his diesel. I already knew what the police were and nothing I've seen since has changed my mind.
NPD
@@patoneill4431trained 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a retired cop of 30yrs I’m astounded and disgusted at this utter TRIPE ! Is this what policing nowadays is all about?
Why is this cop out in the country/ snowdonia doing checks like this ? Ffs !
Not the same job, is it but I don't understand people with dodgy illegal mods who complain when the police pull them up, I know its illegal but don't you have something better to do!
Obviously Because you’re re-tired you’ve got plenty of traction on the matter.
If it’s by Pen y Fan it’s not Eryri.
To be a cop you must hate the people you serve he’s a prize fool
Modern police love to mess with law abiding people. Real criminals might give them a dig -- or scarier still, might give them a tail home after work. Best to avoid those people at all costs. Notice how fast he responded to the allegation he might be picking on minorities? Best to stick to law abiding middle aged white men. That'll get him a commendation, for sure. They're probably gammon and prone to hate speech so give them a tug, just in case.
He truly is the station King Cnut given the conversation you had with the other cops in the van! Nothing better for him to do than waste everyone's time. Good job putting it on CZcams! People like him are simply not compatible with being in the Police force.
Thanks for giving this officer the publicity he deserves.
As a retired police officer, ten of those as a traffic officer(car and bike) this really is disgusting.
cheers nev ;-)
As a lifelong biker, 49 years in the saddle I can say this is not uncommon and have many stories of being bullied by dodgy policemen but my advice to anyone is don't argue with them just accept they are a stain on what is otherwise a very noble and honourable profession, ride safe.
So, police officers are like bikers.
There’s a small minority fuck it up for the majority.
A bit like society as a whole, really. 🤔
Well said sir.
Well said mate.
Cop make up his own illegal laws shows he is a Muppet
They all are lol.
They should simply have not accepted the caution. Because they did, they made his ridiculous on-the-spot prosecution easy for him. If they declined to accept guilt and thus the caution (no, it isn't a rap across the knuckles and getting away with it), then there's a good chance, based on how ludicrously trivial the alleged offence was, that it would have been thrown out as not in the public interest to go to court and if it did, there's a reasonable chance of being found not guilty (mindful the video isn't very clear on what was actually claimed to be unlawful, apart from claimed lack of maker and safety markings on the plate).
I thought it was amusing that his colleague's thought he was a Muppet too!
Do not talk to the police, we have the right to remain silent so use it. This costumed clown was purely on a fishing expedition so he could financially deprive this couple and had no interest in road safety.
@@huwhodges56 I think you are slightly confused as the "right to remain silent" is an American term. You do not have say anything whilst under Caution in the UK, but ensure you supply them with your details if requested as refusal to do so is an offence!!
I was stopped by a motor cycle cop in Newton abbot about twenty years ago , I was riding my xjr1300 four days after passing my test ,I handed him the piece of paper proving I had passed my test , he glanced over it and just advised me to watch my speed ,He was the friendliest cop I've ever spoken to.
why did he stop you?
@@jasonvoorhees5640He said ,No problem with your riding but you came up the carriageway a bit quick , it's 30mph and I was riding closer to 60.
I was Devon and Cornwall traffic police. The attitude towards bikers is one of protection. If we prosecute or give you a blocking it was for your own good. We used to be much more lenient with bikes than cars.
'We're off to do some real policing'. Priceless!!😅😅😅
You can put a police costume on a clown. Underneath he's still a clown.
You can't polish a turd!
I quite like 'You can wrap a turd in a ribbon but it's still a turd' which is quite apt in this case also!
Another innocent couple financially deprived by the road pirates, perhaps a “racist” road bandit too? OUTRAGEOUS!
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The standard of policing in this country is pathetic. They can't find time to investigate assults, burglaries or rapes but can waste time on petty things like number plates which then turn out to be legal after all
i would rather deal with a British bobby than a USA law officer
@@732466 Facts.👍
@@732466 Poor you, i would rather not be subject to arbitrary rules made up by the paedophile war criminal elite who do everything possible to cause harm to the population... i never voted for them.
It’s like they aren’t our police and we don’t pay for their salaries through our taxation!
@@IIIIIIPETEIIIIIIThey aren't your police.
They are the Kings police, they are CROWN servants.
You are nothing but a tax slave. The blue gang are simply overseeing the plantation.
Not trying to be confrontional, just telling you how it is.
Just remember someone house is getting burglar as he stops you
I think it was around 1978 in North Wales we were four motorbikes - all were British bikes, one ridden with sidecar and she had her two children in it, we got stopped by the Welsh Police for also going too slow. Like you we were shocked at the stupidity of the Police. I am guessing that your plod may be the child of the police officer that pulled us over, and 40 years later he is carrying on the tradition.
He's a perfect example of the sort of person who should not ever be allowed to be a police officer or be in any position of authority.
he's the perfect example of a person who was bullied at school and thought he'd become a a police officer just for the power trip
Going too slow in a Country that has blanket 20 mph speed limits in the towns. This cop is an utter bell end ,typical modern copper.
There are NOT blanket 20 mph speed limits in towns. Not in the towns I know of around here!!
Sadly the 20 has been a disaster, although it looks like they're going to re-visit. Some stretches of the A40 through towns are now 20!
@@mattbikes46 What gear is your bike happy in, at 20mph?
@@petetimbrell3527 Good question, it's only a 300 so probably 3rd.
@@mattbikes46 Complete joke innit?
This is absolutely insane! This guy should be fired for abusive conduct.
The perfect example of why the police are losing the common man’s support ..these two people look like the sort of honest citizen that would hand in a ten pound note if they found it in the street and the perfect soft touch for a bullying ego driven copper to stamp his authority on ..
It’s a racism thing in Wales sadly. 😢
I thought they looked like a right dodgy couple of hoodlums!😂😂😂😂😂
Losing? Lost.
@@user-jr2fm1sg6b my apologies mate , you are correct ..
Totally useless - is it any wonder that we feel the police are a total waste of time. This is a prime example !
‘We’re off to do some real policing!’ That was gold
Even they don't like him. He must be a right dick. I'd like to know what his police nickname is, because he so has to have one.
Yes but what is real policing sending out pictures of dead bodies found in parks
Love the comments from the cops in the van🤣
That is the most idiotic policing I have ever seen. Had you not recorded the event I'd have found it hard to believe your story. That cop needs posted down to London for a year or two and then he might just appreciate ordinary descent folks like yourselves out for a sensible and safe bike run. What a waist of tax payers money.
The police in this country is absolutely appalling The problem is most of these guys have never had any real life and no training especially law training whatsoever.
They dont care about Law their only concern is you treat them like they are all powerful and not the clowns they are. NEVER SPEAK TO THEM.
I used to have such respect for the police. Now I would not trust them ever.
It’s a new culture of authoritarianism and unaccountability.
Utter Rubbish! Here is something. Have you ever had to go to an ordinary house and tell a young wife with three children, that her husband is not coming home because he has just killed himself on his bike? It stays with you forever.
@@baldrick574 Was the rider going too slow?
Got stopped on my bike for going through a red light at a pedestrian crossing. I suggested that the light was actually green and there was no one at the crossing to push the button to activate it. The fine officer was insistent it was red and wrote a ticket. I asked what would happen if I refused to accept it. "Court and your funeral" was the reply. Didn't turn out quite as he'd expected. All I'll say is he hadn't noticed the Gopro on the front of the bike...... (and yes the light was very, very Green!)
Oh, dear that is very embarrassing for the Officer, did you get to show the video in Court? or was the case dropped as soon as you submitted the video.
Result!! 😂
Well done, you! I hope you took it further and put in a complaint about that corrupt moron.
I live in Ontario Canada, where we no longer have tax discs. The tag, as they were known, used to be stuck to the back number plate. HOWEVER, Ontario bikers are now being pulled over by State Troopers, in the US as they expect to see the tag. I understand this as the scanners simply tell the cop of an infraction. Most of the time, the serial criminal is let go, but some are being cited, which leads to an enormous waste of time, as if you enter the US with this hanging over your gas tank, you are in a world of hurt. This is called progress
Brilliant 😂 same happened me.had already crossed stop line on amber but accused of red till I showed him dash cam. Not happy 😂😂
Nice to see two more decent people being “served and protected” by the road pirates. This tyrant in a clown costume is sadly typical of today’s politicised police FORCE, more interested in penalising ordinary people than stopping actual crime. Recently released data shows that 94% of crimes go unsolved yet traffic bandits like this continue to harass and intimidate the innocent soft targets in order to swell the coffers of the ever growing state, OUTRAGEOUS!
I am a retired Met Police Officer and I could not agree more. Total waste of everyones time and public money. A pointless venture that he had to see through because he knew he had started off on the wrong foot and realised he was on the cusp of some deep doo doo. What we are seeing is damage limitation for some bad policing; trying to find something to prosecute to justify this rubbish. Non-conforming plates are an advisary. Tinted visors are not illegal, I use one all through the summer months, because not being able to see properly in bright or low sunlight IS hazardous.
That cop clearly thinks he's onto something but he absolutely isn't. He is exactly what undermines peoples impression of policemen
How is this guy married and never learnt you don't argue with them. It's a waste of time and will likely make things worser for yourself (like the whole visor thing).
What wrong with the visor? People wear sunglasses while driving, what's the difference! 😂 @@blacktemplar2377
He was disgraceful and really hope you have made a formal complaint about him.
Problem with officers like him is he gets everyone a bad name 😢😢
That's the bit that really gets my goat. Have a couple of friends who take being a Police Officer seriously, and the really decent ones like them pay for this little pillock's disgusting attitude towards the public.
99% of them are tossers these days. Its the culture of the “authorities” in this era.
@@GilbertdeClare0704 There is Zero such thing as a decent Po-Lice Orrificer. Let me ask you this. If your friends as a passanger in a Po-Lice car seen their mate Orrificer driving break the road traffic laws would they issue them with points and a fine the same as they would Joe public? simple answer is would the hell and that makes them as bent as the rest of them. Po-Lice cover Po-Lice crimes all the time every day and hence the Thin Blue Line Gang saying kicks in.
Only good as your weakest link.
@@soulstep967 definitely 🙄
Well not all police are the same... During lock down we were traveling two up... And ran out of fuel on a bad twisty road... As we were refueling the police went past... Did a u turn and put the blue lights on... I thought here we go..... (Where are you going who are you etc...).... No they said they pulled over to protect us as we were on a bend.... They weren't interested where we we're going just wanted to help... And we were grateful
I've been told to move on when sleeping in the car on a long drive. Damn stupid as I was doing no harm asleep, but had the potential after being forced to drive.
Police spokesmen regularly claim they don't have the support and the respect of the public any more. After watching this video it's not difficult to see why.
Fortunately this couple let the policeman know that he was on camera himself and was also shortly to be starring on You Tube alongside the five Tractors and their illegal trailers that he was conveniently ignoring.
They won't touch farmers because they know dissent will spread like wildfire and come back to haunt them. I see farmers every day, several times a day, on their phones whilst driving (they are hardly ever off them), towing trailers with either no number plate, obscured tractor plates or plates that don't match the tractor. The police never, ever pull them over. But if you don't have the microscopic maker and safety declaration on an otherwise perfect plate on your bike, well, Lord help you!
The 'trailer' that passed on camera was trailed machinery and doesn't need a number plate as it would be impractical in use.
@@MrMesospheric Not true unfortunately. Though they are fond of blitzing certain groups in targeted campaigns
This is why the filth are absolutely loathed and despised. Clearly he was bored and wanted something to do. Harassing innocent tourists. He should be made to say his reasons for this.
He couldnt catch a sheep to shag , thats why.
Yep, my feelings too..
Takes me back to when I was in a line of bunched up traffic stuck behind a traffic cop doing 70 on a dual carriageway. The chaos he was causing with drivers tailgating and switching lanes was dangerous to say the least., and he nonchalantly sat there like that for miles! My solution was to over take the prick at an indicated 71mph for which he pulled me over. The reason?!! For being obnoxious!!
I informed him his actions were for more obnoxious, which he didn’t like at all, however as he didn’t have a fix on my speed, he wasn’t able to issue a ticket!! 😂 T W A T !!
Wasn’t worth a stop in the first instant. But once stopped he could have easily given advice keeping everyone onside. Awful policing.
Plod really don't do themselves any favours.
Road traffic policing is 99% about raising revenue.
Spot on. From the cops right through to the courts - solicitors, judges, and all the staff - it's all about the money.
Did you have legal number plates , yes or no?
Been stopped by exactly the same copper near same location! Got tape measure out to measure a perfectly standard dealer number plate. He has a real issue with bikes!
Very interesting!
@@mattbikes46 ironically there were 2 of us and one had a damaged plate and he didn’t mention it. He was actually travelling in opposite direction and turned around to stop us, fortunately it was in a spot that we know well so no laws were being broken. He had a colleague with him who quite obviously thought he was being a knob😊
This is what happens when you replace real police with service droids!
How many illegal electric or real motorcycles he has ignored because it's too much like hard work..Proper Tosser
He doesn't see them .
They were likely driven by locals who he knows
Wow. Just came across your channel and watched this video. I'm absolutely gobsmacked. Unbelievable, the reasons for the stop. Think you handled the situation well. Bet when the officer got back in his car he realised it didn't go down well for him. Ride safe and look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Thank you for watching.
watching from Quakertown, Pennsylvania USA
I live in Lancashire ,have been a biker for 60 yrs and used to go into Wales a lot. I stopped visiting wales about 10 yrs ago,partly coz of this sort of harrassment by police.
Emergency services are probably sick of scraping bikers off the roads. Rural Wales is not a race track.
@@Will-nc7lp you obviously haven't read this. In 20mph Wales, they were stopped because they were going too SLOW, with sheep around and tractors.
@@arthurmackrell8154 I have, thanks. I was referencing the post that you made and the irresponsible cyclists on rural roads, yet blame the police for trying to stop it.
They must be targeting tourists, because I’m from not the wales, I’ve been riding for 10 years and not once have I ever been topped.
Honestly if they behaved like this to me I’d be very pissed off
@@Sparrowash97I was under the impression that the only locals they "topped" were the sheep 😂
Common sense should tell these kind of police offices when they are in need, the public will not be behind them, they police by consent and when that stops happening they will be crying
Call me a "crazy conspiracy theorist" (heck, there are times I wonder), but I think the world may be on the brink of military intervention. Has a lot to do with the covid marlarkey, and unexplained "excess deaths". Sadly, the military can only step in under VERY specific circumstances - every civil / criminal system must have failed. MP Andrew Brigden's letter to the commissioner of the MET is unlikely to elicit any worthwhile response, but it may very well be a necessary prerequisite - by showing the INACTION of the MET to deal with the allegations!
Watching this just winds me up, unbelievable!
This cop clearly has issues with bikers, maybe it's only in Wales, but I've been stopped numerous times when I was clearly over the speed limit and have "never" been asked the questions he was asking about SDP or Business insurance, or even mentioned my race tint Arai visor or slightly smaller than allowed number plate, in fact the cops have been very very civil, even friendly, but then it's best to not get into an argument with them I've found, but this guy clearly has issues, and needs to be reported I feel.
Last time I got stopped doing a fair bit over the limit on a rural road in Hampshire, I pulled over took my lid off and the cops face as i was in my late 50's at the time, was a picture he was expecting some young tearaway on a GSXR, in fact he complimented me on my riding, but said I just kept it nailed after I'd overtaken a slow car "all true" but the difference was he was polite and even friendly stating he was also a biker, I think there's the difference you got pulled by a non bike riding "anti bike" traffic officer, with some clear issues about bikes on Welsh roads. I won't be riding or driving in Wales any time soon. 🤣
Haha those coppers in the van were funny - I bet they know their colleague is a right nob!
I suspect he's well known ... despite what people say most cops are decent but those that aren't have the power to cause loads of problems for the public and mostly legally
@@davet2555 Indeed. Police officers should be held personally financially liable for any compensation claims arising from abusing their power and the law. They should also be required to hold insurance for such payouts. If it gets to the point they have too many upheld claims made against them, they will be uninsurable and forced out of the job (and quite rightly so). But it will never happen, because politicians simply do not care.
@@JustAlex848 Interesting concept! Definitely needs a truly independent and effective investigation service too
Where I live in South Ireland the Traffic and normal cops do not get along at all!
@@davet2555most cops are decent? 😂 No they arent. Get your head out the clouds
This is a story from a few years ago whilst travelling to work in Sunbury on Thames.
I was on a CG125 Honda riding to my station, I was a firefighter based at Sunbury on Thames, my route to work was from Harrow through Greenford, then head towards Hounslow, Feltham and Sunbury.
I had just approached the big roundabout under the A40 at Greenford when traffic cop in white Land Rover came around the roundabout, looked at me waiting at the junction, and then pulled over. He got out of his vehicle and signalled for me to pull over.
He came to my bike and asked me to remove my helmet, I did this but underneath my top lid I always used to wear a black silk balaclava for warmth in the winter months.
I removed this as well and the coppers eyes went like saucers. I wasn't a black guy as he obviously thought I was, I asked why he had stopped me and he actually said "you looked too big for your bike" 😅
When he found I was a fireman going to duty his attitude changed so quickly also.
Just thought I would share that with you all.
I had a similar stop. Thought my 250 was "too small for the motorway", even though I was cruising at a steady 65mph. Just fishing.
I also take a similar route (Watford to Kingston) I have never had an issue and they seem to have so many officers along the way. I ride a supermoto which to be honest I would pull over. Perhaps their attitude has changed in recent years.
I was the duty police helicopter pilot one night... Off shift at 0300 and a 30 minute drive through rural lanes to get home.. as I went round a particular dodgy bend a police car going the other way and way to fast near shoved me in a hedgerow! I just knew he was going to turn round and pull me in order to save face but before he did I booted it down the road with a grin! He caught me 15 minutes later and he must have been going like the clappers! I was just over a brow of a hill, slowed to a potter and watched him fly over the top and jam on the anchors... blue lights on and I was stopped - we had a little conversation and I was invited out of the car for a breath test because he could smell alcohol - as I did so, dressed in my flying suit, police wings and unit badges I happened to ask whether he'd been on my last job which was a motorbike pursuit.. Click! that was the breath tester case being snapped shut! he warned me to slow down on the bends got into his car and left! what a chump.
I remember cycling down The Mall under Admiralty Arch turning left through the lights to go up Cockspur Street. This was the 90s when I lived in Victoria and cycled in the evenings after work in lycra. Anyway, as I was going through the lights I saw a police van the other side and as I made my way up Cockspur Street, I heard it put on its sirens behind me. I was surprised when it pulled over in from of me and made me brake hard. Officer jumped out and accused me of going through a red. I said "No, no, no! You had a red officer, because you were coming from Northumberland Avenue and that is how those lights work. Stand here and observe. See all those cars coming around from Admiralty Arch and those cars stopped where you were. Do you understand now? Good." No apology, nothing, he just got back in his van. Presumably before I could identify him.
In South Australia, just outside the then police HQ in Franklin Street in Adelaide, a slow moving police car on the side of the road threw a u-turn and knocked a rider off his scooter. "DIDN'T YOU SEE MY INDICATOR" he screamed, and wrote some fabricated tickets for the rider. Poor old plod was a bit thick - he didn't "see" the CAMERA mounted to the riders helmet. He hadn't indicated, he'd simply swerved across the road and knocked a rider down (physical contact -> collision), then trumped up some tickets. When the video made it to media, the tickets were withdrawn, and the officer "suspended" until further notice. On full pay. On OUR TAX $$$$.
Just once I'd like to see a PC pull someone over, find no fault and say "sorry, no need for the stop after all, carry on!" How fucking hard is that?
That copper is doing nothing to promote good police / public relations. That copper is a knob.
Never talk to the police, only provide what is required and nothing more. Never hand them anything and record everything don’t repeat yourself once provided it is incumbent upon them to remember, note it or record it. Be ready to be locked up but then always contact a solicitor and make a civil claim. They are your enemy not your friend.
Staying calm and silent is your only armour. Paul Bromley gives good advice. No point talking to them as they always try and trip you up, and no point talking answering their questions because they are programmed not to belive a word you say. So no point. Answer all questions with " I have been advised by my Solicitor to remain silent "
Wow you must be a real gangsta bro
I fully agree , the claims we can make r of course paid for by us the taxpayer NOT the nazi pigs !
Well said my thoughts entirely
@@alanbarsteward7630 You must you be a real "gangsta" too......"bro".
“Absurd in the extreme” sums up all British policing these days. They’re absolute 🗑️
Rhymes with bosses or tankers ?
The sausage was bored.
He's gotta try justify his salary, some how.
By the look of him, he wont be catching any real criminals.
This Policeman is a typical example of someone that has been given a bit of authority and its gone to his head. I am surprised he didn’t try to invade Poland after he wasted your time for no reason at all…..
He tried so hard to get you to incriminate yourself. Voiding your insurance is a new one to me fishing follow this up please
the reason they do that is because of the cameras. They all try it when they've got nothing else. The justification is that insurance companies consider making CZcams content, because it can be monetised, to be a business use of the bike hence not covered under an SD&P policy. The way around this is to state that the cameras are there in case of an incident involving you or your vehicle. It's then on them to prove that you're not using a latest-model Go Pro or Insta360 or whatever, as a really expensive dashcam.
That question isn't going to void your insurance. Not even possible.
It's a common question to those bikers who they dislike. I know someone who said they was on there way to work when asked why they was out. Then asked to see the insurance policy and the guy hadn't included commuting on the policy. 6 points and lost the licence. It's a crafty trick the police hold in reserve, as it's common not to know the finer points of insurance for young riders apparently. half the food delivery scooters around town don't have the correct cover either, which can also be used against them if they get lippy.
@@BLG80 It's a "crafty trick" to catch people who are breaking the law by driving/riding while uninsured..?
I guess catching bank robbers, by catching them in the process of robbing a bank, is also a "crafty trick" too...
Instead of harrassing people for using the road he should be sweeping it 😂😂😂😂
In the 90s we had an employee who was a special copper. During the day he would constantly be looking at tax discs and if he found an expired one he’d go back when on duty and put a ticket on the car. A little bit of power and their egos go into overdrive. This copper could well be his cousin.
A police officer can stop any vehicle being driven on a road to check it and its driver. If you fail to stop you commit an offence. These powers are in the Road Traffic Act. How you feel about it is immaterial. It's the law
It’s complete bull ship
That is not the point of this video
I got pulled by them in 2016. Myself and my then 6 year old son were asleep in a layby. At 2am they did the same fishing thing. Breathalsed me, drug wipe then took my son out in his pyjamas to search the van, claiming they could smell cannabis. Utter cretins.
Oh, the old " I can smell cannabis" nonsense..gives them the idea they can do a search. When they find nothing it's an illegal search
If the copper doesn't ride a bike how on earth does that qualify him to give advice to a real motorcyclist. This guy just shows again the utter contempt they have for the public. Don't trust them they are not on your side. I bet they would expect help from you if they were being attacked though.
Domestic terrorists
They do exactly the same thing when I'm driving a HGV. It's all about the power trip.
He’s safe in his traffic role so it requires a pedant scared of dangerous police work to do it.
If a policeman isn’t a murderer, how on earth does that qualify him to charge a real murderer. Do you realise how absolutely insane your argument is?
Let them know we have total contempt for them too. TOTAL
I was a bit concerned at your statement that it's illegal to wear a tinted visor, as my helmet has one built in (that I can move up / down as required)... so I looked it up. Here is the result of my search:
Tinted Visors:
You can wear a tinted visor during daylight hours.
However, according to UK ‘Fitness to Drive’ rules, avoid using tinted visors at night or in poor visibility.
Mirrored visors are generally considered illegal, but road-legal Pinlock-style mirrored inserts are available for most major brands.
Interesting point about built in visors, I really don't know where they fit in, I wonder if there's an exemption for them as they are technically fitted with 2 visors - clear and tint.
I think with the external visors some are legal (very light tint) but the darker ones are technically illegal - however the ACPO guidelines are don't prosecute during daylight hours.
The law is clearly a bit of mess, makes you wonder if it'll ever be re-visited.
This was unbelievable, I’m sure not all police are like this, but this was definitely just fishing. Trying to reach a quota for the day. Also all agricultural vehicles have to have license plates, including their trailers. Good turn out in the end and great content 👌
That's not true, on the video you saw specialised rake machine it doesn't obscure the tractor plate so there is no requirement for it to have a plate on. It would be impractical to mount on tines that can move round anyway.
I was told years ago by a proper cop in South Wales that traffic cops give proper cops a bad reputation. The public tend to refuse to help the proper cops to do their jobs.
That's interesting, many years ago (30plus) it was the opposite. Traffic cops cared and just wanted the traffic to flow smoothly. I remember being stopped several times around London and just got advice and a little telling off, never a ticket. That taught me to be respectful and to recognise the cops as friends. Very sadly, that is no longer the case. Ego is the biggest problem, they need to remember that they represent the law, they are not the law and that they as individuals have no part In the job they do. Another word that they should have tattooed into their sole is professionalism. Far too stupid to separate themselves from their job.
@@user-te6qm3ne8y I think it depended on the area. I remember i used to travel to Glasgow every weekend to deliver frozen foods. It was the old A74 then at the end of the M6. The police would hide and wait to catch you.
It was a horrible road, hilly bendy and slow, so when you could build up speed thats what you did and the police knew where to sit and catch you.
The trucks getting off the ferry at Stranraer put dusters over their number plates to stop being identified, Such fun back then. No cameras, just proper plod work
This is the country that imposed a blanket 20MPH on their roads..LOLOLOLOL
there is no blanket 20mph on the roads here
HAHAHAHA. There’s no such thing as a blanket limit. Basic driving/riding knowledge .
Can’t believe your surprise at this guys attitude, Welsh coppers have always been the same to non locals.
Love the comments from the officer in the van 😂. Not just the traffic to be wary of too but the sheep at the side of the road which could take you out.
I don't have a bike but I fancy doing this road in my Mini. Beautiful Wales is on my bucket list, I haven't been back for 36 years.
Don't let this put you off. To me Wales has the best riding in the UK and the vast vast majority of people are very friendly - we've not experienced any hostility since moving here.
@@mattbikes46 Oh nothing puts me off I'm too wise and ancient. What I meant was you had to be wary of the sheep as well as other hazards. I support our Thin Blue Line 💙 despite their occasional fopahs.
@@kristinajendesen7111 Ah yes, I agree on both of those points.
It's all police everywhere, their training is absolutely horrendous.
Waste of tax payers money 🙄
It's actually a WORLDWIDE phenomenon. "Covid" was a little power trip that's been planned for a very long time. Unfortunately, most people don't see the reality unfolding around them.
I'm a biker and normally supportive of the Police but that was ridiculous. What a pratt.
Let’s pick on easy targets and forget real crimes.
Brilliant response by the other officer in the van 😂. He's clearly just a sad little man
Absolutely disgusting. Would even employ him as a lollipop person.
Why not do what I did? While the pig was checking my vehicle, I was checking his police car. The front offside tyre on his Focus was illegal....
He’d be a social pariah if he started playing silly buggers with the farmers so it’s ‘ stop the English bikers’ who are riding respectfully and put money into the economy.
Thought his ilk disappeared in the 70’s
1870s
They stop us Welsh bikers too for crap like this. Utter twats
Plus that last tractor definitely displays a plate.
He is a social outcast with his own police force, clearly, as most traffic plod are.
I think fishing expeditions like this by traffic policemen are very common and the motives behind it are rather suspect. More to do with going on a power trip than actually expecting to find real issues.
I got stopped in a nearly new car in obviously immaculate condition yet the tyres had to be checked and of course I had to be breathalysed despite there clearly being no smell of alcohol.
Too be fair he was only doing what he’s been told. I’m a biker and i wish we had more traffic cops on the roads. Maybe not bored ones like this one, but i live in the midlands & some of the driving around here is absolutely disgusting. Keep enjoying your biking sir & madam 👍
I also ride bikes in the midlands, and you're right, the standard of some folks driving is appalling, very rarely see a police vehicle of any kind though.
Too much reliance on cameras these days. More about cash than people’s safety
The police broke the social contract years ago. I will never help them under any circumstances.
6th Feb 2015, I had a backpack (containing corporate laptop, documents, personal effects and money) stolen from the passenger seat of my (unlocked) car as I sat in gridlocked traffic (bicyclist opened my door and grabbed it quicker than I could react). I jumped out and gave chase, STOPPED the thief but received a shattered (not just broken - SHATTERED) leg for my efforts. Within a few hours in hospital I received a visit from police. Cop NEVER asked a single question - was just abusive - repeatedly threatened that I would be charged with "CRIMINAL ASSAULT" (against the thief) unless I signed a "no police action statement" regarding the theft!!!
- If I ever see one of these costumed clowns in a severe state of distress, I will NOT assist, I will NOT call for help, I will NOT even stop. I'll try not to smile too hard :)
As an ex police officer, working in traffic for 20 years, my apologies. If I thought you were going to slow, I would have stopped you to see if you had a problem and offered help if needed. I was way more interested in people going way too fast & other fools with driving licences.
As an ex Police officer please can you explain what speed is "Too slow" How would you explain that to a Magistrate?
@@robertbaylis9714 Extremely slow in comparison to average speed on the road in question I would think.
Funny, I've always found _real_ traffic police to be highly professional and the best of the bunch. It's the fella on a bike who knows he's blown his chances of career advancement, and the jumped-up storm trooper in his panda car who failed Advanced Driving who usually have the bad attitude.
@@mjh5437 Any human magistrate would kick that to the curb unless there were other "crimes" included. Total waste of resources.
It was because u where English them pigs told me when they stopped me once
Just thought I’d put in my tuppence worth, DVSA motorcycle instructor here & tinted visors are legal if they have embossed day time use only on them. This officer is an absolute disgrace, silly little man on a power trip. Well done for keeping your cool, I’d have lost the rag I think by that point. On another note farmers seem to get away with absolute murder, missing number plates, old trailers not fit for the road with no working indicators, but they always get away with it.
Nearly all police officers that I have met are decent, helpful people but like an any walk of life, there are exceptions. Officers like this, really do the police a massive disservice.
Same thing happened to me 3 years ago during a rural ride. I'm now 68 and the officer's face dropped when I removed my helmet and revealed my age. I mentioned, "I've been riding 50 years officer and know what is a safe speed for the conditions". He seemed rather embarrassed that he obviously thought I was a young feller to be picked on and turns out I've been riding long before he was born.😁🏍️
But he still went for you and wasted your time plus advertised the Police are not to be trusted .
Same happened to me on my Gixxer . When I removed my lid he said . " I thought you were younger ! " I said , " so did I "
@@brikfiendTalk about adding insult to injury😂.
That officer displayed all that is wrong with this country in a nutshell, he should be ashamed of himself.
He should but I bet he won't!
I don't know about UK, but in my country you don't need plates on farming trailers.
The policeman was parked "within 10 meters of a junction". Did he give himself a ticket? He sure seemed anal enough to do so...
Typical gobsh*** cop. This was more about massaging his ego and the rider's failure to bow down to this cretin and his interpretation of the law.
_If it wasn't for their double standards, they'd have NO standards at all!_
I think you’re getting the law and the Highway Code mixed up!
Ones the law, the others the Highway Code. 🙄
@@andrewknight665 Thank you. Either way he should not have been parked there.
@@andrewknight665 Very interesting. And what's the difference? Or don't you know?
I can’t help thinking he was bullied as a child and this is his power trip 😂😂😂
IM experience, the bullies at school are the bullies when adult.
And children who were bullied strongly object to bullying when the see it as adults.
I don;t know why so many accuse the victims of being the future offenders.
Bullied are also accused of being the offender whilst still in school (when they react).
@@DennisGeorge-cn3zu I appreciate what you’re saying but this isn’t about a bully growing up into a bully this is about someone likely bullied and having the massive advantage of putting on a police uniform and that’s the difference. Now they have the power and whether they use and abuse it is the question. Even a weak gimp can put on a uniform and be a right nasty person.
As a female who often goes out on my bike alone, that's really very scary actually. Dealing with that alone, would be horrible. Bit like being pulled over by the mafia. You convinced me to get my gopro set up on my bike pronto!
DPP are usually pretty good with sensible riders and even those who push things a bit without being complete tw4ts. This chap really was just being a tw4t instead. Ty for your safe and considerate riding in Powys.
The nice thing about the way Welsh police keep treating motorists is the level of desperation that I notice creeping in to Welsh tourist board advertising.
Unbelievable!!
His colleagues will be having a good laugh at him (again) 😂
Psychopaths dont care, that's what makes them Psychopaths
yup i bet this cop spent a lot of time in the lockers at school ,,,
@@phillipsmiley5930 Lacking any medical qualifications, I wasn't sure if my (former) manager would be classed as a bipolar Narcissist, or a Psychopath with a cyclic need to hurt people. Over time, I came to realise he had some psychiatric "need" to force people against their will. Into what? It didn't matter, as long as he believed he had "forced" someone against their will. I successfully played that for a couple of years (if I had an idea I wanted to implement, I'd mention that I'd "looked at" something but it wouldn't work / wasn't viable / too hard - he'd then relish MAKING me do it), but the day he no longer held "coercive control" over me (I didn't take the covid jab) he went full fruitloop and fabricated grounds for dismissal. Very odd bloke - he used to follow staff into toilets and watch them - apparently he got it into his head it was his JOB to "make sure nobody is smoking or using drugs in the workplace". The funniest aspect of all, he was a manger of an IT team of 6 people working for an Australian Bank.
Thank you for logging and publicising this
A year ago while driving in Llandudno at 1am we were stopped by police in a 30 zone for driving too slow. We explained to the officer that the 30 limit was not a target and circumstances of that moment dictated our speed. The young cop said we were driving too slow for the conditions while popping his head as close to drivers side window as he could. So we told the young cop that several streets back there were a herd of Great Orme goats demolishing a hedge and some stragglers of that herd were on my road with their heads poking out between parked cars. The young cop says I didn’t see them. I said “no wonder 💭 officer as your car was so far up the ass of my car you would have struggled to see my number plate never mind goats. He of course wasn’t amused. I told the officer that his real reason for stopping us was his hope of finding a drink driver. I also informed him that he stopped us without due cause as his reason for the stop was based on a false premise. I told the officer that he should therefore let us get on with our lawful business or state his reasons for continuing to detain us.
Move forward one year and we get stopped again in exactly the same place for driving too fast in the newly created 20 zone. You couldn’t write this stuff. Worst than that, it was the same cop. He remembered me and said .. drive on lol 😂
If I remember correctly, Auditing Britain had trouble with these fools from Heddlu.
Here's one for you. I was on holiday in Wales with my family, driving past a school and going downhill behind another car, we were both pulled over and by a waiting police car into a layby. The copper talked with the guy in front and let him go. He then came to me to tell me I was speeding which I contested. I asked why he let the other guy go as he was in front of me and therefore must have been doing the same speed. He said that they guy in front was going slower, I said if I was going faster than the guy in front I would have crashed through him. I then asked if he was let go as he had welsh number plates and that I was a visitor. That didn't go down well and he got stroppy. When he finished and gave me my paperwork I asked him to write all of my comments down on his device and let me have a copy. this kept him there for a good half hour as he made lots of mistakes. I of course had to pay the bribe of £90.00 and go on a speed awareness course so that I didn't get an endorsement on my license. They still do not like the English.
Or the Welsh
They're not our police they are their police
I used to drive an M5 you know the 205mph one. So I had cameras and data logging for my protection.
I was done for driving in a bus lane. I produced footage of my waiting in a queue of traffic finally seeing a minor crash in the car lane and everyone using the bus lane to get past.
TfL operator would have seen that to issue the ticket but would have sent out hundreds of tickets I wonder how many people just paid?
I can see why he didn't like you. !!!
while in Wales a few years ago, a group of us riding motorcycles, two friends, separated from the group, were pulled over and accused of crossing a solid white line, they were adamant they didn't, but it was a Welsh coppers word against theirs, no video evidence, I fitted cameras to my bike after that, to protect myself from such situations.
@@gavinedwards5797 Yeah, he wanted to have his boots licked while picking and choosing how to apply the law.
Lodge a complaint as he didn't tell you he was recording at the start of the interaction. Under GDPR he's a data handler and he's must inform you straight away, as the police are a corporation. Failing to do so, or telling you afterwards, means he was effectively covert recording you, which he can't do without a warrant.
Make a complaint and be as difficult and pick as he was about the law...
Why did you change the number from the original?
No obligation to answer any question at all apart from providing your name and address ( not date of birth ) if you don't have your driving licence on you.
Ask them what law they suspect you to have broken, if none, then ask them if you are being detained and under what law is that detention lawful If not, ride/drive/walk/cycle off.
these bags of shit have no control over law abiding citizens, don't give them consent to rule over you!
But no crime has been committed so r they realy required to give name & address to these knobhead "nazi pigs " !?
You are partly incorrect my friend, S164 of the Road Traffic Act makes it an offence not to produce your driving licence or name and date of birth.
@@dave-ef2fd In prescribed circumstances.