Undercover Garda Cars

subway

Spitfire666 wrote:

It rarely happens. itd be on something like a car/van and it might have a old reg off a escort or something. not something you would be checking online anyway.

i have no intention of ever checking a reg of a car i amnt buying
what i meant was, it seems unusual to have something like the wrong vehicle plate attached to a car.
i think the main reason to change the plates is that if someone does check up on them they dont show up as gov. owned etc
if the plates for a beemer showed up as a transit when checked then surely alarm bells will be ringing for whatever crim. is checking them?

i dont know what garda undercover duty entails but i presume, probably wrongly, that its mostly surveillance and infiltration of gangs.
i hope that the criminals that tax payer money is being spent on in the above way are smart enough to notice a vehicle based surveillance unit and check out any new "recruits" enough to make sure that they arent obviously gardai.

btw, i would rather they were stupid enough to miss all of the above, but then i would hope that the gardai would have a little less trouble actually catching them....

Spitfire666

subway wrote:

i have no intention of ever checking a reg of a car i amnt buying
what i meant was, it seems unusual to have something like the wrong vehicle plate attached to a car.
i think the main reason to change the plates is that if someone does check up on them they dont show up as gov. owned etc
if the plates for a beemer showed up as a transit when checked then surely alarm bells will be ringing for whatever crim. is checking them?

i dont know what garda undercover duty entails but i presume, probably wrongly, that its mostly surveillance and infiltration of gangs.
i hope that the criminals that tax payer money is being spent on in the above way are smart enough to notice a vehicle based surveillance unit and check out any new "recruits" enough to make sure that they arent obviously gardai.

btw, i would rather they were stupid enough to miss all of the above, but then i would hope that the gardai would have a little less trouble actually catching them....

it wouldnt happen like that. a car with false plates is gonna be only for sitting in for surveillance in areas openly public where the surveillance van isnt gonna be noticed as it would just look like a brikkie or tiler or painter or whatever.

Turner

subway wrote:

i have no intention of ever checking a reg of a car i amnt buying
what i meant was, it seems unusual to have something like the wrong vehicle plate attached to a car.
i think the main reason to change the plates is that if someone does check up on them they dont show up as gov. owned etc
if the plates for a beemer showed up as a transit when checked then surely alarm bells will be ringing for whatever crim. is checking them?

i dont know what garda undercover duty entails but i presume, probably wrongly, that its mostly surveillance and infiltration of gangs.
i hope that the criminals that tax payer money is being spent on in the above way are smart enough to notice a vehicle based surveillance unit and check out any new "recruits" enough to make sure that they arent obviously gardai.

btw, i would rather they were stupid enough to miss all of the above, but then i would hope that the gardai would have a little less trouble actually catching them....

:rolleyes:

If the gardai are undercover, believe me when i say that you or the criminals and even other gardai in the same city wont even know about it.

joebhoy1916

MrPudding wrote:

Undercover cars are used in undercover operations and will have no features that will indentify them as police vehicles.

MrP

What about them big 3 aerials on top of the unmarks?

Guy:Incognito

joebhoy1916 wrote:

What about them big 3 aerials on top of the unmarks?

are you taking the piss?

biko

MrPudding wrote:

An unmarked car is simply a car used for normal duties that that does not have the police paint job. Blends in better than marked cars.

Undercover cars are used in undercover operations and will have no features that will indentify them as police vehicles.

MrP

joebhoy1916 wrote:

What about them big 3 aerials on top of the unmarks?

MrPudding wrote:

An unmarked car is simply a car used for normal duties that that does not have the police paint job. Blends in better than marked cars.

Undercover cars are used in undercover operations and will have no features that will indentify them as police vehicles.

MrP

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Spitfire666

biko wrote:

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pmsl

cast_iron

G Luxel wrote:

The undercover cars are D regd, but Ive seen one on a different reg. eg
90 WD 56789. 5 digits for a county which only has at most 4 digits. There used to be an aerial at the rear left panel of any car but the actual antenna was facing down towards the road....

That sounds like a crock on nonsense to me.

Spitfire666

it is. they come in all sorts of reg's. and YOU WILL NOT TELL AN UNDERCOVER CAR IF YOU SEE ONE.

deman

I'm finding this thread absolutely hilarious. XD

PPL! Please read before posting stupid comments!

Three aerials......... Ha!

G Luxel

cast_iron wrote:

That sounds like a crock on nonsense to me.

what is non sense about what i wrote? Are you saying Im a liar? For obvious reasons I did not quote the number plate I saw but I gave an example. My point being that an unmarked garda car is not always a D reg. In this case the car had 5 digits which I thought looked rather odd. Another example would be 98 S0 846984.

walt0r

An undercover car is undercover for a reason. It will have absolutely no distinguishing features whatsoever.

Seth Brundle

I can't believe that this is still going on!
For those not sure of undercover - which car in the following pic is an undercover police car?

Our man in Havana

Very good point kbannon

deman

G Luxel wrote:

The undercover cars are D regd, but Ive seen one on a different reg. eg
90 WD 56789. 5 digits for a county which only has at most 4 digits. There used to be an aerial at the rear left panel of any car but the actual antenna was facing down towards the road....

G Luxel wrote:

what is non sense about what i wrote? Are you saying Im a liar? For obvious reasons I did not quote the number plate I saw but I gave an example. My point being that an unmarked garda car is not always a D reg. In this case the car had 5 digits which I thought looked rather odd. Another example would be 98 S0 846984.

Make up your mind. Are you talking about undercover cars or unmarked cars?

antodeco

This is an UN-MARKED garda bike:



(actually the one behind this bike is undercover! )

This is an UNDERCOVER garda bike:

btowner

No garda cars do not have a number plate readers cause that's even advanced for the English police. In other words it will probably be 5 years before the Gardai use them.

Esel

Banned for digging up an old thread.