Probably not - I'd go for one of other journalists - maybe Mick Clifford, or Gemma O'Doherty, or the thejournal.ie or broadsheet.ie or thestory.ie - lots of options out there.You mean like those journalists and more particular those papers that 'rely' for their scoops in the same said policemen.
Ordinary people shouldn't have to snoop on the police. And the police should be so professional that what they do isn't called into question. Illegally parking and turning just makes a mockery of the law.
You're right - people shouldn't have to snoop. But if this stuff is happening regularly, then expose it, and stop it happening.