Being pulled over by the police/garda: is there a standard procedure?

aircobra19 said:
Thats the obvously suggestion. But I'm not in the car recovery biz and I could tell you that, as could most people who pay any tiny bit of attention to the Gardai cars.
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I would beg to differ. I didn't know that but now that I do, I'll probably be checking every cop car I see!
 
Never knew that about the tow bars eithers.

The only time I've ever been "pulled" was when I just moved here and my car didn't have a tax disc for a few days. Three times in one day I was stopped at a check point (twice by the same guy which made us both laugh) and questioned about it.

But they stopped me with just a wave of the hand in slow moving traffic.
 
Why on earth would they need a towbar.

Unless it was a off duty cop in their own car. (yes they wouldn't have blue lights)
 
Just to clear things up. They dont actually use the tow bar when stealing your car, they get you to step out and drive off in it. This car they were using just happend to have a tow bar which is unusual for a cop car.
 
just to add my tuppence worth...all guarda cars,marked and unmarked have dublin reg plates no-matter where in the country ....so if your ever stopped by a car that hasnt got d-reg, the driver aint the Irish version of Horatio Cane
 
kiwifruit said:
just to add my tuppence worth...all guarda cars,marked and unmarked have dublin reg plates no-matter where in the country ....so if your ever stopped by a car that hasnt got d-reg, the driver aint the Irish version of Horatio Cane
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really? now that is interesting. I shall keep my eye on that one.
 
I have been pulled over twice, once by squad car that flashed his headlights at me, second time by unmarked Subaru Forrester that had pulled out from his little hiding place. Both times they tailed me for a wee bit. I presumed it was to contact station and check if car legitimate, but that is assuming they have capabilites that proper foces have in detecting stolen cars or incorrect false plates. Also been pulled over by siren flashing handwaving leather glad village people wantabee motorbike cop. I was just back from states and had forgotten about the turn on red signal. He reminded me of course that it wasn't done in this state and handed me contribution form to the bertie waste of money team. Also have known guards to use private cars to catch people at speedtraps. Thus the lookout for the Dub reged cars doesn't work. Here they tend to use big van with cameras pointed out back window but recently in New Zealand I noticed they had used old Toyota camper van/minbus. Only obvious thing was it was parked where no tourist would bother stopping.
 
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