Police can legally use a mobile phone while driving

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Originally Posted by Black_BF_mKII

As an Ambulance Paramedic I too am allowed to use a mobile phone when driving (at work). Though i've never understood quite why. The Police carry the same basic equipment we do, same radio, same mobile data terminal to receive jobs. We don't have a mobile phone for the ambulance, we receive all jobs through the MDT or via radio. Ambulances even have a push to talk button fitted where the clutch would normally be, so you can talk while having both hands on the wheel. So I really don't get why we are exempt. It's a dangerous practice and should be amended.

So you have never been in a situation where you needed to contact a person who was not on the ambo network such as SES or RFS etc. or a local to assist in navigation because the geniuses at 000 have sent you in the wrong direction and your satnav does not have the correct info for a country track?

Just in case your were not sure, the whole of Australia is not in Metro Melbourne......