Grey reg plates

So, some 'enthusiast' with dodgy plates knocks your mother down or damaged your parked car in a hit and run. Witnesses could not make out the car's registration. Fine by you?

Both those choices you've saidare legal. Yes, it's a minor thing, but its still law. We don't get to pick and choose which ones we follow or not. Who draws the line on which laws we should be allowed ignore?

Don't get me wrong, I like a nicely modified car. But doing something illegal just because it looks cool is no excuse.

And who do you think sends the reports to Revenue? Or are you saying you can only be done for illegal plates if its a revenue checkpoint? They never told me that in Templemore.

the guards don't prosecute for a lot offences in Ireland or maybe they cannot remember them all.Over/under size characters on plate,wrong colours.Also,what about wipers,lights,damage panels-some sticking out and a danger to pedestrians,cyclists.Having dodgy plates must be a minor issue.Tax and Insurance counts as major major offence

Big difference between sitting on your sofa and driving a car

So now you're admitting that the Guards cannot prosecute someone for illegal number plates. A bit of an about-turn on your previous comments in this thread.

But if you have had the training you allege to have had surely you would have known this all along......it's hard to believe someone who claims to have once been a member of AGS when they don't appear to know the Law 😁

What are you on about? How did you get me admitting they can't do anything out of what you quoted? Or are you just being pedantic that AGS submit the information and Revenue prosecute? Because AGS still have a role in the prosecution there. Yeah, you're just being pedantic and trying to act all high and mighty about it.

And I couldn't give a fiddlers what you believe or not. I've nothing to prove to an internet cool guy. But continue to pretend to know more than you do. I'm sure you know the exact process involved so be a good chap and inform us.

I never said they weren't. And yes, that's how most positions are filled when you start off in AGS. I wouldn't say they're not interested, more they don't have the time. As you noted, most road traffic stuff is minor and not worth the hassle or time, especially when our legal profession is so good at finding loopholes and our judges don't drive themselves so don't encounter the minor issues that everyone else deals with daily.

In my 10 years, I never had enough time to do files and even less time to actually police for road traffic stuff. People act like angels when they see a marked car. Well, most. There's always idiots who can't even see them. If there were a lot more FCN offences, I'd imagine the numbers would go up, but such simple things require a court case.

But back to my point, the ex-Traffic Corp now Roads Policing Unit mainly concentrated on traffic offences, setting up those pesky checkpoints to catch people who believe they shouldn't have to pay the same as everyone else, how dare they. Their bread and butter was intoxicated driving and checkpoints. They didn't decide where to go and where to set up checkpoints, directions come from above but people act like it's the individual Garda setting it up. They certainly assisted the regular and other units, but when dispatching I was only "allowed" to send them to traffic incidents save for an emergency (and no, what most people consider an emergency usually isn't in the larger picture).

And to end what is turning out to be longer than intended, these small issues being let off lead to, imo, people getting too relaxed and breaking even more laws, and wherever they get that entitlement from. But it again paints a picture of what that person is really like imo.

Checked. Seems not

the IRL needs to be on a blue background gold stars

Thats exactly what people do, its only once a year or once every two years. Not a big inconvenience

Are the German style ones illegal? Quite like the look of them.

Yes.