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I was driving from a little st comming onto chapel st, in melbourne. I gunned it a little comming to chappel st, and there happen to be 3 protective services cars, and they were just chatting away outside their cars. I then turned onto chapel st, and quickly turned into another little st of chappel to hide. Within a few secs these guys drove out of the st, but didnt get caught.

When i seen then i s**t myself cause these guys wear the cop uniform.

Just wondering if anyone know what they're role is, and can they bust you for anything on your car like exhaust and noise etc.

Cheers guys!

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Protective Services = Feds

They look after security for venues and officials (heads of state etc). They couldn't give a crap about you on Chaps - it's all the other Po-pos in South Yarra you should worry about.

Yep nothing to fear there....

They could have detained you indefinately @ our governments pleasure or accidentally gunned you down because you neglected to shave that morning.

But they can't defect you or give you a traffic violation so np's ay!!! :):P:yes:

I'm not sure whether they are Fed's Jameszilla.

I thought the were just govt. employed security guards, with stickered up cars & fancy eppalauettes.

They used to sit out front of my work every day as there was a couple of embassys in the building.

The real "feds" were there on and off in their unmarked V8 statesmans.

Australian Protective Services are part of the Australian Federal Police. They do have the same power essentially as an AFP officer, even slightly more in some cases. But they couldnt give two rats about your car. The worst they would do is dob you into the local police station.

I was driving from a little st comming onto chapel st, in melbourne. I gunned it a little comming to chappel st

maybe next time connect the brain to the right foot before your ego says "gun it" in a side road while doing chap laps. Then you won't have to worry who the f**k they are.

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