How quickly does a police car pull up insurance/tax info?

[EazyDuz]

Strange thing happened today. Riding my bike, end up with a police car driving infront of me. Keep my distance and ride perfectly, sticking to speed limits etc. Then, the police car indicates left and pulls up in a layby, i nervously ride past when i look in my mirror and the car pulls back out again and carries on driving.
Made me worry a bit but they never pulled me over, which is good because i dont even remember who my insurance is with (insured through a broker).
Were they just checking my details via reg plate? Did worry me about being checked for proof of restriction too
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[CaNsA]

20secs max.

[andym]

Some of the cars are fitted with a camera that reads your registration and flashes the screen red if you don't have anything in particular (tax, mot, insurance etc). So I guess almost instantly really

[stonesie]

[cornish]

Bah. They've obviously realised how lucrative catching people out can be I remember when you had to actually be stopped and asked for documents in order to get caught out and all that was required to 'explain' a tax disc nearly a decade old was a decent rack and some eyelash fluttering *sighs*.

Doing it all on computer without even getting out of the car is just cheating
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[EazyDuz]

I should have pulled in behind them and stayed there until they pulled off. Or rode past with one hand leaning back and covering the reg plate, just to annoy lol.
But nah im taxed, tested and insured so its all good, it just made me a bit on edge thats all.
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[mistergixer]

[Walloper]

They were probably reading your thread on bcf and had to stop to have a good laph......
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[cornish]

[angryjonny]

I've heard stories of motorcycle police pulling over speeding bikers just to admire their bike and then send them on their way. In these days of targets and tax-via-the-back-door I doubt you'd get so lucky.

When I flutter my eyelashes at the police it rarely has the desired effect. Occasionally, yes, but not very often.

[cornish]

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[angryjonny]

[NeiljohnUK]

[DrDonnyBrago]

In my "vast experience" of watching police propaganda programs, it doesn't seem to take more than a few seconds.

[Redoko]

[cornish]

[Walloper]

[bunglehaze]

I got sat behind a police car yesterday on the ten which is a bit noisy, both of them in the car were looking like they were considering a pull over and tug manoeuvre which to me is just fucking cheeky. In any case something came up in front of them which they didnt observe correctly, I did and changed lanes before I hit the bottle neck.

As I pulled up to their rear quarter the indicators came on so I politely slowed and allowed them room to get out, then filtered past with a nice big thumbs up rather than blue lights. aaah justice.

If they were paying attention to the traffic and not my bike they would have seen it though and it goes to show that sometimes they are just looking for likely people to tug.


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[sirswali]

bloody pigs...

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[sirswali]

[yuri2085]

[Vincent]

Don't ANPRs also flag up if the vehicle has been seen in a "dodgy" place or being pulled with a "known" perp inside? Maybe, thanks to your bikes PO, they were hoping you'd lead them to a two and a half plant cannabis factory in a gangland wardrobe somewhere
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