If any of us Joe public had done this the next time we'd see our licence would be in a Museum!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4559173.stm

Liam

The court heard the roads on which Pc Milton drove were deserted at the time of the patrol and that driving conditions were good.

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There you go, thats all you need to say and they'll let you off.

I saw a police car speed through the middle of chester the other week. Busy saturday afternoon, chester centre doesnt have big roads. I dont care what training they've had, the speeds he was doing just isnt safe.

Pc Milton was driving in accordance with his training, honing his skills while possible and testing the vehicle's capabilities

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Because thats an excuse i think i'll go testdrive a new car and do the same

i saw this on the news earlier, its soo wrong.

testing it out, pahh i`ll say that when i speed "oh sorry officer, i was testing out my new manifold and decat)

you have to be an advanced driver and be praticing for good reason, like to maybe chase people who had just robbed your car and rapped your graney surley its better they get used to the car before an emergency isnt it?

It appears he was going along the M54 when he did this. I'll be going along there on Friday evening. Somehow I don't think i can emulate it in a 1.6 Primera Might possibly have done 130 along there in the coop before though (it's a really quiet motorway at night).
H

Wat are you doin a primera??? Not only that...but a base model primera???

I think its disgusting, if your a PC and beckham it seems u r void from a speed limit!

There were two things on the news that annoyed about the statement from some bloke from the police federation that backed up the courts decision to let him off.

"It's a bit of a double edged sword, if someone's life is at risk you want officers to be able to get there as quickly as possible".

Firstly, how is that scenario comparable with him testing the abilities of a patrol car. Secondly, what is the point in putting other people's lives at risk by exceeding the speed limits, just to hopefully end the risk that another person may be in.

If a police officer is allowed to decide what is and isn't safe, so should everyone be, which is obviously not a good idea. If police are allowed to drive faster, because they have had advanced training, then everyone should be allowed to have the same training and the same rules should apply, again not a good idea.

This is just another thing that will make most of the police force think that they are above the law and above everyone else that they are supposed to serve.

As far as I am concerned, testing and training of that kind should be saved for the race track. It is not safe. I don't care how much training they have had. A few tenths of a seconds of reaction speeds mean nothing when going that fast and certainly if something is directly in front.

It's absolutely disgusting. That's what it is.

If any one of us had been caught doing that speed it'd be a prison sentence, not just a ban!

If criminal the fact that these police officers are getting let off scot free.

He broke the law, he should be punished as an equal citizen.

smurfhead said:

He broke the law, he should be punished as an equal citizen.

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I totally agree.
Don't get me wrong, we all speed from time to time, but if we get caught we get punished, and so should he be.

alexb said:

I totally agree.
Don't get me wrong, we all speed from time to time, but if we get caught we get punished, and so should he be.

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Spot on, totally agree with that!!!

David

DON'T FORGET THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME A POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN LET OF SPEEDING,IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO,ALL WHERE DOING OVER 100 MPH

Neofolis said:

Firstly, how is that scenario comparable with him testing the abilities of a patrol car. Secondly, what is the point in putting other people's lives at risk by exceeding the speed limits, just to hopefully end the risk that another person may be in.

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How is it compatible with testing the abilities of the car? Erm, I can't see how it's not compatible with it. I'm sure that he was doing it on an empty motorway. The M54 is often empty, and there are some parts where you can see for a mile or more. I'd rather he was familiar with the car at high speed beforehand, than have him never go over 70 before when he needs to get somewhere quickly.
The point of putting "peoples lives at risk" with the speed? He is an armed response officer. If someone's got a gun to my head, or is robbing a bank I'm in at gunpoint, I think I'd want armed response people there pretty damn quick, thank you.
Let's not forget that while 159mph is obviously more dangerous than 70, there's no threshold you go over where it stops being safe. I'm sure plenty of people die at 70 or less on the motorway.
H

This isn't a simple case, and he didn't break the law, our justice system found him not guilty.

He is a police officer, it seems one of the best, as H has said, i'd rather he know how to go that quick before he has to.

Although that speed is very high, you would have expected it to be part of a fully detailed training process, not him thinking "I wonder how quick this can go?".

Looking at it as basic speeding isn't the full story. On top of this, if you rememeber a little while back, a man was found doing *i think* 130mph and he wasn't done for dangerous driving since it was found to not be dangerous, search for the thread.

alexb said:

we all speed from time to time, but if we get caught we get punished, and so should he be.

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You're looking at it the wrong way. What you mean is:
We all speed from time to time, but he got caught and was let off, and so should we be.

H

The Negotiator said:

This isn't a simple case, and he didn't break the law, our justice system found him not guilty.

He is a police officer, it seems one of the best, as H has said, i'd rather he know how to go that quick before he has to.

Although that speed is very high, you would have expected it to be part of a fully detailed training process, not him thinking "I wonder how quick this can go?".

Looking at it as basic speeding isn't the full story. On top of this, if you rememeber a little while back, a man was found doing *i think* 130mph and he wasn't done for dangerous driving since it was found to not be dangerous, search for the thread.

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Hello?????!!! He was caught speeding at 157mph! That's the issue here! Regardless of whether it should be deemed as dangerous or not, it could have been on an empty motorway in the dead of night or on the ****ing moon for all i care - 157mph is still 157mph, but it seems that because he's a police officer it's justified. Justified my arse.

I don't care who he is, who he works for or indeed who he's shagging to get off the charge! He should be slapped for the speeding regardless of being prosecuted for dangerous driving or not!

hmallett said:

You're looking at it the wrong way. What you mean is:
We all speed from time to time, but he got caught and was let off, and so should we be.

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I'm not looking at it all wrong at all!

Speed limits are there for a reason and, when broken, the speed limit breaker(!) gets punished. That's fine - You do the crime, you do the time (as it were). If I get caught speeding at 5mph over the limit or 87mph over the limit (as in this case) I'd fully expect to be punished. Simple as that!

I think it was hmallet who said it was a clear piece of motorway...i was watching the news this morning and it gave a video clip of a police car clearly speeding, whether it was this cop in the car or not i dont know (anyone know if it was him?), it was definatly not a clear motorway there was a lorry to oneside of him and cars on front...not safe...
i think it we are caught speeding we should be punished if we are over 100 we should go to court...i dont think that ANYONE should be let off there are no excuses for endangering the lifes of others for no reason.