New Nsw Undercover Police Cars

[Habler]

We had a cop WRX in our small town a few years back. It didnt last long thanks to teh po-po stacking it into a drain on a random dirt road way out of town!!!! The actual report was that he was chasing a hoon....

[DECIM8]

Anything Travelling at decent speed to catch up in my opinon is enough to be a cop, Licence plates with no dealership number or details is a cop, Ariels in strange places, Stock "performance" wheels = cop, Glowing interior from hud of pc screen = cop.

List goes on and on, dont drive like a dick dont face penalties, or take ur chances when your smart enough.

If they impound a car which is related to drugs and so on, crime etc they can keep the car.. If its a nice one concider it on the way to patrol us.

[SABBAi]

It's not unusual to see plain clothes po-po in hipo debadged cars. Locally there is a dark blue XR6 turbo with the badges removed, with no visible lights on the dash or rear parcel shelf. Has the aerials and a unit bolted to the dash that is near the steering wheel.

A few times I have seen it with a uniform driving and 2 plain clothes in the rear. Always the same guys. They used to sit in our court and watch the happenings in the court across the way.

[trism]

where im from, they have an unmarked SS with frangepani stickers on the back window.... they put p plates on xr6 turbos, they use falcon and commo utes...

the also just got 3 new xr6 turbos, marked, but all in bright colours... green, orange and blue...

[Large]

lulz

Its not the car that gives you away john law

It's the the combination of a multitude of screamingly obvious car ariels and two, noticeably out of place, grown men sitting behind the wheel or an 06 WRX... wake up, your not going to catch hoons with these n00b tactics

what you need is undercover cop bikes... ffs do WE have to do all the thinking for you?

The cops were running unmarked CBR1000RRRRRRs in NSW last year. Pretty sure they tried them in Vic as well

[cheez]

seen many unmarked cars around northern burbs.

grey xr6t and xr8 utes with all the aerials lying flat in the open tray

white mitsi 380

2 ss commo's with rims and zorst (epping to thomm) trying to get ppl to drag them (they tried it with me)

and a heap of others too.

imo drive naurally and ull be fine.

[saff_cossie]

Nothing unusual, the UK has a huge assortment of modified unmarked and marked performance cars. Cosworths, Evos, WRX's, modified BMW's, Range Rover Sport's etc.

Displaying P plates is distasteful though as they should be displayed to make other drivers aware of their potential actions. All for them having undercover cars to catch the idiots who want to race them but p plates are issued for a reason and shouldnt be made a mockery of.

Incidently I was reading the impounding stats in Saturday's Herald Sun and good to see the vast majority are falcadores and hopefully showing the authorities where the attention needs to be directed. Wonder if they will start driving pink VL's with gauges on the bonnet soon.

[N1GTR]

The WRX's were taken out of the cops hands as the speedo's were out.

Subaru was asked to fit them with speedos that used 2km increments instead of the normal 5/10 and the calibration was out

I remember that from years ago cause i couldnt believe i was paying tax to an organisation that could make such a huge f**k up.

Refunds were issued to infringed drivers and points were given back

[trism]

nope. just an offence to not have p plates on if you are a p plater

im pretty sure the cops stopped using the WRXs coz the speedos werent calibrated right...

The WRX's were taken out of the cops hands as the speedo's were out.

Subaru was asked to fit them with speedos that used 2km increments instead of the normal 5/10 and the calibration was out

I remember that from years ago cause i couldnt believe i was paying tax to an organisation that could make such a huge f**k up.

Refunds were issued to infringed drivers and points were given back

thats what i said!!! ^^^

[voox]

my old man was drivin my car bout 3 years ago we got pulled over and the coppa told us that we could lose a point and get a fine for displayin p plates whilst on full licence unless they changed it but im pretty sure its still an offence

[Bliksem]

I was under the impression that at the time the WRX's were getting around they were not available with an Automatic option and thus many of the po-po were unable to drive them... Even the rodeo's they have are Auto's now...

[**JaR**]

to be a cop you have to have a manual licence or be able to demonstrate that you can drive a manual...so i doubt it'd be that..

[W0rp3D]

It's not unusual to see plain clothes po-po in hipo debadged cars. Locally there is a dark blue XR6 turbo with the badges removed, with no visible lights on the dash or rear parcel shelf. Has the aerials and a unit bolted to the dash that is near the steering wheel.

I was pulled over by an unmarked unit that had no lights or radio aerials on it, they just had a sign that said "pollice pull over" which they flashed when they pulled along side.

A few times I have seen it with a uniform driving and 2 plain clothes in the rear. Always the same guys. They used to sit in our court and watch the happenings in the court across the way.

You must live in the pines

[unarmed_skyline]

whilst working at Honda we had about 3 or 4 unmarked cop cars come threw, a couple of integra type r's which had no ariels or anything visable but had hidden buttons and sirions, and there was an s2000 as well. Most of the contracts go to aust bult cars hence why most cop cars and ford's holdens and mitsi's, most their temp cars are mitsi's when the others are at the shop. They do it to keep the profits in the Aust market which is why there are some random undercover cars but most are the standard ones.

As for the WRX's i always though it was cause they kept on killing the engines, and few people have joked at the fact that the seats are too small for the adverage police officer but the speedo issue seems a lot more belieable.

Fact of the matter is most cop cars are obvious by how they drive, i had one follow me yesterday which i assumed was a cop, changed from right lane to middle and he followed behind me, then a little later a changed into the left lane close enough in front of a car that it would be a struggle to squeze in between me and the car behind me, then the cop car quickly changed behind me, i was doing the speed limit and he followed me for ages but didn't pull me over cause i did nothing wrong.

Drive safe on the streets and you got nothing to worry about, leave it to the track i say.

[black_gtst]

It's not new. Back in the 60s, NSW police used Mini Cooper Ss, and they also used XY GTs dressed as Futura 500s.

A few years ago, I spied a WRX sitting up in a cutting waiting to pounce on unsuspecting speedsters near Lake Nilacootie (near Benalia).

my old mans mate use to spice up the wrx'x in the mid 90's for the cops, just zorst, firmer suspension set up and blacking out the windows. some useless info for yall!

brett

[trism]

here is the ombudsman report about the faulty speedos in WRXs

http://www.ombo.nsw.gov.au/publication/PDF...2002.pdf?id=120

a few excerpts:

"Recent media reports have referred to a particular police taskforce, ‘Operation Sibu’,

that investigated infringement notices issued by police driving Subaru vehicles. The media reports have also

referred to a subsequent related matter involving 20 police vehicles identifi ed as having faulty speedometers.

It is important that any discussion of these matters be based on accurate information."

"In late 1999, NSW Police purchased three Subaru WRX vehicles following a three month trial of the vehicles.

An external company initially certifi ed the speedometers in all three vehicles as accurate, meaning they could

be used for speed enforcement duties.

Shortly after the vehicles became operational, signifi cant errors in the accuracy of their speedometers

were identifi ed. This meant that highway patrol offi cers could not be confi dent of the accuracy of speed

infringement notices issued while driving these vehicles. Therefore, in recognition of this problem, directions

were issued by commanders and supervisors to remove these three vehicles from speed enforcement.

Despite these directions, some offi cers continued to use the vehicles to police speed limits and a number

of infringement notices were issued. When senior offi cers realised that the vehicles were still being used to

issue infringement notices, inquiries were undertaken to identify affected motorists.

This resulted in the refund of 530 fines."

[R-PWR]

Just dont speed, and plus we all know its like 98% new aussie cars so if you get done otherwise and you happen to be speeding then your pretty unlucky,

[DivHunter]

Just dont speed, and plus we all know its like 98% new aussie cars so if you get done otherwise and you happen to be speeding then your pretty unlucky,

oh please, just don't speed, what a crock. Everyone does, 99.98% of cars I see every morning and evening are speeding and even the ones that do sit at the limit end up going over at some stage and that's in light - med traffic. Are there giant piles of burning cars? Are hundreds dead? No, just a bunch of people got to work on time.

[ras1983]

Don't you love 2 of the 'hoodlum' activities mentioned in the article?

"They are a new strategy to get cars that blend in with the hoodlums.

"What we find is people don't pick them as police cars and it's easier to pick offences like speeding, using a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelts.

I love the unfair demonisation of car enthusiasts (or more specifically the hoons or hoodlums) the media is guilty of. In two sentences they mention hoodlums and using a mobile phone & not wearing seatbelts - because obviously its only the 'hoodlums' who break those laws right?

[DogKnight]

Ras, what do you expect from the media. Anything to spice up an article. And the word 'Hoodlum' does exactly that.