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Unmarked Garda car on Northern plate??

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    #32
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,863 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Tipsy Mac wrote:
    Yes with a 2004 Dublin reg.
    Probably the same one that's been cruising up and down the N3 the last week or so.


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    #33
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    Kaiser2000 wrote:
    Probably the same one that's been cruising up and down the N3 the last week or so.

    Yeah I took the reg and was going to make a complaint but thought the general hassle and agro I would receive from them until it was dropped wouldn't be worth it.


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    #34
    Skyuser
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    Kermitt wrote:
    AFAIK, you have the right to call the gardaí and check if an unmarked car is legit before you pull over and jump out. Think there was a case about this a few years ago where a guy was carjacked by two lads posing as special branch gardaí
    They have to show their badge.


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    #35
    Gatster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,415 ✭✭✭Gatster


    There has to be huge legal implications to this, aside from VRT etc. Do Northern French police drive Belgium plated cars or vice-versa? A good brief could rip this apart


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    #36
    Longrangedriver
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭Longrangedriver


    Litcagral wrote:

    While I know that the PSNI occasionally travel to the South for meetings etc., I didn't think they were allowed to do so in uniform.


    Lately personnel from Garda HQ have been picking up the PSNI cops etc from northern areas to escort them to Dublin for ;) collusion meetings;) . Also they are not allowed to travel in uniform or foreign state unmarked patrol cars.


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    #37
    ambro25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    Tipsy Mac wrote:
    Yes with a 2004 Dublin reg.
    Kaiser2000 wrote:
    Probably the same one that's been cruising up and down the N3 the last week or so.

    Well, I know it might not be the same undercovers driving it at all times, but that particular one stopped me in Nov'04 across from the Yellow House in Rathfarnham, and the guys alleged all sorts. Weather was beautiful (enough to have top down, I was in MX5, t'was on yellows then as I'd not moved permanently yet).

    Basically, they were just about to come out of Rathfarnham Castle car park as I passed by towards Yellow House, doing 35 mph or so (light was amber). They screeched the sh*t out of their tyres outta the car park, only to drop the anchors 200 yards further at the lights, window down, badge up, 'pull over now!' (I was already stopped :rolleyes: ) - then proceeded to read me the riot act as I was supposedly "driving past them at 60 mph" etc. I eventually sent them packing after 10 minutes, once they'd served me enough aggro to get me angry & have at them :mad:

    They were disrespectful, tried to be intimidating from the off, and factually incorrect/asserting merrily with no proof whatsoever.


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    #38
    kluivert
    Registered Users Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭kluivert


    Good old Carrickmacross...homeland to the infamous Fiddlers.

    There is Garda presence on that road but not unmarked cars. There is a speed trap at the old Lisdonal Towel Factory. Normal they are sitting there in their white van.

    Boys heading to Dublin leave their cars and vans there as well so you cant tell if its the Gardas or not.

    To the OP, it sounds like boy racer taking the mick.

    The aerial is so the boys can talk to each other over the radio. The blue lights are blue bulbs which can be bought in any motor shop and I wouldnt pull over unless I could visible see uniforms etc.


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    #39
    woody
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭woody


    I checked with the Plod well a friend in the Traffic corps it is not a cop car, nor is it legal to have a State Car Reg'd with NI Plates


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    #40
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,934 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    Bluehair wrote:
    Bizarre experience on the way up to Dublin from Monaghan last night on that new stretch of Carrick bypass (single carraigeway, long straight but only 100kph limit).

    Was doing 100kph exactly along here when a silver mondeo sped right up my hole, thought 'boy-racer' at first since there was a solid blue tint off the sidelights but then copped the huge ariel on top and the now visable small 'garda' sign hung under his rear view mirror (sign was hard to see but was obviously designed to flash if he'd turned it on).

    Stayed about 3 feet from my bumper for a mile or so, then switched the blue side lights to white, pulled out to pass me (with inches to spare) and sped off into the distance. Was very surprised to see a yellow RIL xxx as the reg.

    Pissed me off a little as he was clearly trying to goad me into speeding up, there was nothing ahead of me, long straight road and zero neccessity to tailgate me. Anyone else encounted this?


    Definitely not a garda car.

    Some prick with home made lights and signs.


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