Jetpilot Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Doing the rounds on Fb, ignore the excitable Welsh dude, but is the comment fact, only Police are allowed to collect evidence in a crime? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=842092179158744 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhackyWill Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 (edited) I just posted that in "Traffic Light Cameras" thread. so it must be true.. Here's an interesting point. If you get nicked by one of the vans, you need to immediately check who the operator of the camera was, because if he was a civilian operator you can contest it on the grounds that he is "not a police officer and therefore has no powers to collect evidence of a crime". :thumbs: Edited August 16, 2014 by WhackyWill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilogikal1 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 If that were true, things like private CCTV footage could never be used as evidence and thus rendered pointless. Nor witness statements for that matter, unless the witness just happened to be a passing police officer. Anyone can collate "evidence" of a crime. Whether it's considered admissible in a court of law depends entirely on the validity of the "evidence" itself, not who collected it. So, no, that's not true. That said, things like speed cameras require training and type approval to be operated "properly" so there's a possibility of getting any evidence collected by a random guy sat in a police van classed as insufficient evidence due to the possibility of misuse of the equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-Ricky Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 If you think about it logically fixed speed cameras would not be legal as it doesn't have an operator, so could be argued that its not a police officer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 What an utter load of rubbish. The link, I mean. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne370Z Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 (edited) Civilian employees are used to collect evidence all the time - scenes of crime officers are now pretty much all civilians, in GMP anyway. If the guy is operating the speeding camera (which is not a crime just a road traffic offence) then I would suggest he will have been trained for it and was therefore carrying out a legitimate activity unlike the balloon trying to upset him for no apparent reason. Edited August 16, 2014 by Wayne370Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Got to love a smart @rse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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