Getting stopped for "random" breath tests.

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Re: Getting stopped for "random" breath tests.

Post by yoshie » 03 Sep 2017, 3:11 pm

In Canberra they have 2 Highway patrol cars called Rapid 1&2, they have real time database scanning for expired rego, no licences, outstanding court dates etc. I was pulled over a few times for "random" breath tests and they asked if there were any firearms in the car. Turns out the link drivers license and rego to firearms licenses (cat H anyway).
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Post by Oldbloke » 03 Sep 2017, 5:32 pm

I believe the link to firearms licence and rego has been happening in Victoria for a few years now.
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Post by Gamerancher » 04 Sep 2017, 10:27 am

Same in NSW. Overheard on a scanner years ago after a fella was pulled over.
After the usual name address etc, was the following remark, "......has a firearms licence, may be armed." :allegedly:
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Post by Dunxy » 04 Sep 2017, 2:38 pm

Gamerancher wrote:Same in NSW. Overheard on a scanner years ago after a fella was pulled over.
After the usual name address etc, was the following remark, "......has a firearms licence, may be armed." :allegedly:


It disgust me that they assume a LAFO (who's obviously not a convicted criminal or wouldn't have a licence!)is going to have a loaded unsecured firearm.I wonder if they have the same flags on criminals who have been convicted of firearms offences, but never held a licence?
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Post by juststarting » 04 Sep 2017, 9:00 pm

Dunxy, if I were a cop, stopping a random car with a random person... I'd like to have all the possible information I could on them. Armed, not armed, offences, history, etc. I don't see an issue.
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Post by Hugh » 14 Nov 2017, 3:45 pm

colinbentley wrote:I have been stopped for testing many times over the years and have always been OK. However over 20 years ago now I had been drinking scotch and certainly should not have been behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. I was on Mitcham Road heading towards Wantirna which is a straight stretch of road with no turnoffs. And there in the roadway was booze bus. I was driving a green Ford Fairlane Marquis . My whole life flashed before my eyes because I was working two part time jobs to fund my retirement and blow me down I was waved through. I couldn't believe my luck because I would have been over the limit. It scared the hell out of me and from that day forward I have NEVER driven a car if I have had more than a glass of wine.......even at Christmas. So there is an example of someone learning his lesson and I didn't even get caught.That night I certainly had an angel on my shoulder.

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Post by ERNK » 28 Nov 2017, 6:31 pm

Utcherd wrote:I'm sure we've all had a little of this, but the last week I've really copped it with being "randomly" stopped by police for a breath test.

I drive an old commodore that's resprayed the Holden canary yellow - or whatever its proper name is - and also has an aftermarket exhaust.

At a glance it looks/sounds like it might be something fancy, but other than what's mentioned above it's totally stock. Brakes, springs etc. etc. all good, nothing close to being defect.

Anyway, in the past I had an old corolla, and wouldn't see a cop for months at a time and never got pulled over. Since getting the brighter car I get stopped maybe once a week.

The thing that got to me today was I was pulled over twice in the same trip about 20 minutes apart. I told the second cop his mate had pulled me over 20 minutes ago and we'd just done all this, but he didn't want to hear it and I had to go through it all again.

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I once got pulled over by two police driving out at the Port of Brisbane - We had gone for a drive to see the US ships in port.

The road out there used to be a long dead straight that was used for drags when I was a kid, it is now (of course) still a straight road with about six roundabouts installed to slow people down.

Anyway, two police, about 500m from the end of the road (roundabout) stopped me for RBT, I complied and back on our way, turned around at the end of the road, and they stopped me again... I also explained that they had just done me not 5 minutes ago, wouldn't have a bar of it... I'n not sure if they work on a quota, but very weird...
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Re: Getting stopped for "random" breath tests.

Post by Ed9362 » 02 Dec 2017, 9:54 pm

Dunxy wrote:
Gamerancher wrote:Same in NSW. Overheard on a scanner years ago after a fella was pulled over.
After the usual name address etc, was the following remark, "......has a firearms licence, may be armed." :allegedly:


It disgust me that they assume a LAFO (who's obviously not a convicted criminal or wouldn't have a licence!)is going to have a loaded unsecured firearm.I wonder if they have the same flags on criminals who have been convicted of firearms offences, but never held a licence?



My brother in law is a beat vic cop and i aksed him about this.

Any one who has involvement with firearms will show up when they enter you adress or the reg of a car in your name.
Illegal involvement with firearms will flag red. Simply holding a firearms licence will flag green, so they know who the crooks are and are not. The brother in law said that its quite common for firearms to flag when they bring people up in the computer and un less the individual is a known violent offender, they dont pay to much attention to it.
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