The sorry state of (some) policing.

[Pedro]

For the first time since 2005 I had dialog with a Qld police officer.

I'd left home to drive down the street to pick up a take-away. There is a T junction at the end of my street and a high rise has just commenced construction there. The blank hoardings around the site severely restrict vision of traffic approaching from the 50 m long road on the right. I looked left, and seeing no light glow from the right, proceeded into my right-hand turn. Half way out I saw headlights on the right side so accelerated across the road to make sure there was no chance of a collision. I noticed it was a police car and continued on around the next corner and pulled up outside the pizza place.

Officer plod pulled up behind with lights flashing. I'm alighting from my car and he says "step out of your car driver," and follows with "do you have any excuse for speeding through that intersection?"

"I wasn't speeding, I was just getting out of your way and my vision was restricted by the dangerously placed hoardings that have only recently been installed" I replied.

Plod pulls out his tablet and checks my record ... "You've been booked quite a few times for speeding" he says. "The last time was 2005!" I replied, "so what does that tell you?"

"You are a serial speeder" he replied.

"Anyone with a remote understanding of actions and consequences would congratulate me and feel a sense of achievement that the 'every K over is a killer' TV campaign has had an impact". I replied.

This officer then started to lecture me on the consequences of speeding blah blah. I asked him if he was familiar with the statistics on the Qld. Govt. website that states that the majority of fatalities are caused by inattention and fatigue and asked if he had been briefed on this statistic and if so what prevention measures had he been asked to undertake.

He inferred my remark was somewhat flippant and announced I was free to go.

I mean WTF!!! He's probably a good guy but brainwashed by the system he works for.