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Are any tests done for lidar?

Do you guys test on a regular basis?

Like have 2-3 officers drive by in marked cars and test various devices to see if they all get same speed and if that matches the car?

But then what ensures the speed in the police interceptor is also accurate?

Only 14 over though no demerit points.

Quite right nice officer indeed.

Although for insurance purposes all moving infractions do add up.

I would say its your choice to take it to court and depends on how your insurer will treat it.

Wow 8-10 minutes.

What do you do if your following the guys exit comes up?

Would you get off and follow him to his house if it was close?

Wondering cause usually OPP HSD does 400 series highways so if you follow for a few mins calling the plates in, etc. Then what do you do if the person gets off? Follow? Or just make the stop turn the lights on ...

Just another thing i noticed today or another reason to hate on these lanes.

people sit in them and then realize the line is solid so they are not allowed to get over for their exit.

So the result if they often cut over going slower then the passing lane with a solid line to get off at their exit.

The 403 for example, you can be in the HOV lane ...

Wow 12 hour shifts! Patience must be thin.

Let's say on a night shift would you actually be on the road the whole time since no court or nothing else to do?

I think R.I will make his next trip in that way around a Tuesday around 9-5 possibly :roll:

Very interesting but i wasnt sure if it was just me noticing.

I do believe this though for a few ...

Wow Squishy thats almost 175 km/hr. I have seen fast flows of traffic in Ontario but never anything like that, although i have heard stories of that happening in a few places like the QEW near the skyway, and the 401 out around Belleville, Kingston area, i am sure it happens on the 400 a bit to.

Speaking of fast officers. I have never seen that ...

Yep squishy new york state is funny.

When you drive there you look around and wonder why they all drive the speed limit, then youll go in the left lane to pass them, look behind some guy flashing their lights and guess what!!! They're from Ontario to.

But some southern states are very aggressive drivers. Miami i have experienced, i heard LA ...

Agree with you on that squishy. This happens alot.

You get all the trucks in the right lane stuck at 100, or those who drive really slow. So then the capped trucks go into the middle lane trying to pass at like 3 km/hr faster.

Or all the people who hate having to deal with all the people merging into the right lane, as a result people only use ...

Sorry just looked at intersection on google unlikely,

Were you entering the highway when this happened and got into the right lane to early while it was still solid?

From the way I interpret it, she drove onto the paved shoulder before the start of the off-ramp, entered the off-ramp, noticed the officer, and merged back onto the highway for the "move over" law (which, by the way, does not apply unless emergency lights are flashing) - and then the officer waved her and another car over.

I think the officer may ...

PS was out tonight your right about the Spectre, saw 2 of them parked for a break. Both did not have the Spectre RDD.

You were also telling me that not all the cars have a built in radar unit.

I don't know how you guys would do it. But lets say in the GTA region you might have 15 officers on a shift?

So would a commander or Boss assign roles to ...

Makes alot of sense. Plus why order cars for highway patrol with alloys that would certainly cost alot more and would be hard to justify buying them with citizens tax dollars.

Maybee wrong thread.

On a cop car on the back you sometimes will see 2-3 of these dome like things. They are circular near the back of the roof and kinda flat, maybe stick ...

I remember R.I tellin me that detachment at Chatam makes the Ohio Highway Patrol look like boy Scout's!

Man bear you guys must have so much fun at work

5 chase cars at one lidar trap crazy! :cry:

P.S i never asked you before. Whats your favorite vehicle to drive ?

I bet those Tahoe must be fun to drive with those massive 5 L + V8's.

Those new ...

Sorry just for those unaware of the term HOV.

HOV = High Occupancy Vehicle Lane

Basically they are lanes on the left side of the highway (even left of the passing lane) Usually a 4th lane added for vehicles carrying more than 1 passenger and have restricted access so you can only enter / exit the lanes at certain times or markings on the road ...

Just wondering what you guys think of those HOV lanes.

Sure these lanes are faster then usual but i think they present a ton of problems, now the first thing i want to clear up is often we say speed is dangerous. Okay i can believe that depending on the context and situation its used in. But i think most of us here can agree the real dangerous ...

Well bear just so you know i would never really "FLY BY"in that area you patrol.

A good speed there is about 114.4 km/h You know just so the radar wont round it up 8)

You know though sometimes if i see an officer parked on the side of the road or happen to noticing him doing some sort of speed enforcement.

I go in the right lane and do exactly ...

Can you add into this thread the spectre R.D.D.

I wonder how much they cost.

Am i wrong in thinking that all officers would have a radar unit, hand held radar, Laser, and a spectre RDD with them in every car.

Although i have heard the laser speed guns cost quite a bit.

I wonder if they have the funding for all this?

I assume spectres must be ...

Hey R.I i heard if you want to attract some bears you should put a big thing of Honey on the hood of your car and or a massive be hive on your roof as you go through "bear country."

Either that or bring out the Fuzz Buster 2000 west of London :twisted:

I can see it now, bear is under a overpass somewhere between London and Essex, he pulls out ...

bear remember in the other thread with the hand held K band VP directional, you told me that what i had suggested would not hold up in court because the gun has a mode to select direction (device can tell or only read cars going away, or coming towards it, etc)

Would the Genesis VP not have this option and therefore this defense would work? (The ...

Oh ya that 07 civic with the pilot from Michigan.

Isn't he also the one that carries all the doughnuts in his car from Essex to London on the 401???

I bet bear is going to go on a blitz for stopping civic's on the 401 in an attempt to find R.I and impound his car and (accidentally put him in the trunk) of his car.

Isn't the Markman old or not being phased out?

Although a few months back i saw the OPP in peel using them on the 400's.

Never pass a crown vic with black wheels.

From experiences and others it is never usually a good idea to pass a police officer and need to exceed the speed limit to do it.

Always check a car, if it has extra antennas, black steel wheels, or anything else that might be a give away such as extra electronic devices in the car a bad idea to pass it.

Squishy wrote:Handsfree?

Now this is genius!!!

On a side note i don't mind those small blue tooth head seats.

Maybee BelSti would fight him.

With his dogs on the side of the ring with the Anti 172 Shirts!!!!

1 Hit for every unconstitutional road side trial !

Not really you would just need a basic calculator from a dollar store.

Although knowing most cops there would be alot of fatal errors

I've seen that a few times to.

Usually parallel to the road (3 lane express way GTA region)

One time i saw it on the 401 around Mavis rd.

Honestly i don't know what that cop was doing but he was in a really dangerous position.

I happened to be getting off there and slammed on my breaks and freaked out as i was driving this vehicle appeared out ...

These must be the phones they install in the cruisers.

Sorry yes i know that, but LIDAR can only be used when an officer is stationary.

I can't imagine trying to drive at 130 chasing someone down trying to look through cross hairs to aim that thing from far back. :lol:

Bear question for you, usually in the GTA region when you see an officer parked on the side of a highway(shoulder) or under an ...

I wonder if you could. Don't most cop cars have an extra battery in the trunk or somewhere on board. They have alot of extra electronic devices they need to use while parked, would be wasteful to run the engine all the time.

Ill add to that Bookm, i have talked to a few HSD officer's when they were on break. Most were decent, nice, open minded, and saw things from both ways.

As far as speed limits i like to see what they think. Ill say this though on average alot of them think we could use a higher limit then 100.

Two of them basically told me the same thing.

They ...