Why would police video a biker?

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Was reading the MCN article on the crack-down by North Yorks police on bikers. The picture they use (probably agency stock) shows what looks like a video being used (policeman, far left). I was wondering why they'd need to do this? What justification?

Just interested in the pros and cons. For example what would they say if your religion banned you from having your image captured?

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well people with taht religion would be buggered if they speeded
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I thought the same when I saw the picture.
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[mchaggis]

All just an aid to prosecution. They video anything and everything where there's likely to be/ has been trouble. They especially like to video football fans/ hooligans.
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[G]

They have been know to take video at bike meets, especially those where people can be found to be doing lots of stunts.

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I believe you can pay £10 and request a copy of the video. They must abide by the rules of the dataprotection act also, I believe.

[JonB]

Reading that article there it seems a relatively "good" idea to have a sort of warning before hand that coppers are about with those matrix boards, besides the matrix boards generally make me wanna slow down moreso than a camera sign anyway.

On a rideout with southwestbikers they got escorted to their rideout destination by a bike cop once. The problem with these sorts of forums is that it gives the police chance to find out whereabouts large number of bikers will be gathering too.
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[Finglonga]

He is getting evidence, In this case a illegal number plate and race can by the looks of it (the green Kawasaki is also getting some attention).
Rider probably let off with warning and told to sort it. Then if you are caught again with a small plate they will prosicute as you failed to rectify the problem.
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[Fortuna]

I'm writing to my local MP as I'm sick of this.
How many coppers there? Shame they weren't all standing around a well known trouble area when my brother got assaulted for no reason whatsoever.

[Wave2k]

Stop Targeting road users, start catching real criminals
this has been said millions of times
and its always true
there are TOO many traffic police
Not enough police on the beat
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What's the problem with using a video camera?
Everyday if you walk through a town or city you are on camera so if your religion dosent allow it, and I can't think of any then you would probably never leave your home.

Wave and Fortuna,

Traffic police do traffic policing. Thats the idea.
Why don't you stop feeling so hard done by and get on with your life. Accept if you break the law you may get caught.
Maybe you would like to blame the people who beat up your brother rather than the police.

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always thought the phrase was.............
"GUILTY UNTILL PROVEN INNOCENT"
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[stinkwheel]

Maybe we should make everyone have their name and address displayed on their back, then they could put in jaywalking cameras and issue fixed penalty fines to wayward pedestrians. The money could be used to fund 'loiter cams', 'dropping cigarette butt cams' and 'drinking in the street' cameras.

Then all the police would need to do is arrest anyone who fails to display their name or writes it in bad handwriting. Simple.

Rather than waste time going out looking for individuals offenders, they should just pull in any large groups of people and check them all,. Chances are two or three of them will have forgotten to use a capital letter or have bad punctuation.

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