Detectives/Plain Clothes

have_a_go_hero · 14-12-2011 12:03AM #1

I hope this Question is OK to ask!
Do detectives and plain clothes gardai carry the same kit that uniformed members carry.... i.e. tetra radios etc?!

sdanseo · 14-12-2011 12:10AM

No, there's a 200-mile retractable cable in the boot which stays plugged in at the station at all time just in case they need to make a call. :rolleyes:

Course they have the same stuff, or at least access to it. Just not on their person all the time.

have_a_go_hero · 14-12-2011 12:13AM

No, there's a 200-mile retractable cable in the boot which stays plugged in at the station at all time just in case they need to make a call

very funny.... NOT however i only ask as having being stopped once by pain clothes for an incorrect number plate they used their mobile to ring back to the station to check something out....

Zambia · 14-12-2011 04:42AM

Sorry whats an incorrect number plate ?

I only know
Stolen number plates
False number plates
Unregistered number plates

Anything else is a proper plate?

Cavehill Red · 14-12-2011 05:00AM

Zambia wrote: »

Sorry whats an incorrect number plate ?

I only know
Stolen number plates
False number plates
Unregistered number plates

Anything else is a proper plate?

Certain fonts, designs and sizes are not permitted.

Zambia · 14-12-2011 06:09AM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Certain fonts, designs and sizes are not permitted.

Investigated by a detective? Slow day

Cavehill Red · 14-12-2011 06:36AM

Zambia wrote: »

Investigated by a detective? Slow day

Rapes, murders, major banking frauds in this country all go unsolved yet AGS rarely if ever pass by anything involving a motor veh-hickle. I'm not going to speculate as to the OP's scenario. Perhaps they can clarify.

heffomike54 · 14-12-2011 06:39AM

Gardai, also have official mobile phones, which could explain this situation.

deadwood · 14-12-2011 08:22AM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Rapes, murders, major banking frauds in this country all go unsolved yet AGS rarely if ever pass by anything involving a motor veh-hickle. I'm not going to speculate as to the OP's scenario. Perhaps they can clarify.

I think you're already speculating by stating that rapes, murders and major banking frauds all go unsolved.

Don't you watch the movies? All the best cereal killers are rumbled by a broken tail light.

As for the major bank frauds, i'm guessing you're referring to Anglo and co.? Morality aside, I don't know if anything illegal was done but, if Fingers ever darkens my roads with one of those german style reg plates, i'll be on him like a rash.

scholar007 · 14-12-2011 09:56AM

deadwood wrote: »

IAll the best cereal killers are rumbled by a broken tail light.

The Rice Crispies strangler got caught that way.
So did the Frosties forger.
So did the Corn Flakes mob.
So did the Weetabix wa*nker

mcgarrett · 14-12-2011 10:06AM

scholar007 wrote: »

The Rice Crispies strangler got caught that way.
So did the Frosties forger.
So did the Corn Flakes mob.
So did the Weetabix wa*nker

Knowing deadwood he stuck in that spelling to see who he could catch out.

goldie fish · 14-12-2011 10:10AM

Al Capone was only jailed for tax evasion..

deadwood · 14-12-2011 11:21AM

scholar007 wrote: »

The Rice Crispies strangler got caught that way.
So did the Frosties forger.
So did the Corn Flakes mob.
So did the Weetabix wa*nker

Don't forget the Porridge Pedant.

They found fibres on him too.

donvito99 · 14-12-2011 11:59AM

boards is better when deadwood posts:D

msg11 · 14-12-2011 12:36PM

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Certain fonts, designs and sizes are not permitted.

Or ones mounted in the window ..

have_a_go_hero · 14-12-2011 01:23PM

The number plate font was italics with the sizing too small...makes it hard to read apparently!! And it was 5am on my way home from work in a rural area maybe they thought it was a bit suspicious:..and as to the detectives thing I actually think they were plain clothes gardai not detectives as I knew one of them defo isn't a detective!

Mycroft H · 14-12-2011 01:29PM

msg11 wrote: »

Or ones mounted in the window ..

No its not. As long as its clearly visible from the front and the rear of the vehicle there is no problem

Locust · 14-12-2011 03:57PM

If we want to get technical - they must be 'affixed' to the front and back of your vehicle and 'clearly visible' at all times.

Having it sitting in the front window where it can be prone to glare, and unseen when its dark at evening/night and the fact that it isn't affixed nor clearly visible for Gardai or cameras to see - not good enough... you are committing an offence by having them in the window

Also criminals will alter/swap/remove and make up bogey plates - bad guys are always caught on something minor

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/vehicle_registration_numbers.html

msg11 · 14-12-2011 06:02PM

BX 19 wrote: »

No its not. As long as its clearly visible from the front and the rear of the vehicle there is no problem

Dunno where you are living, but around here if I drove around with my plates in the windows I would be pulled over within the hour.

iceage · 14-12-2011 06:10PM

goldie fish wrote: »

Al Capone was only jailed for tax evasion..

And they caught the Yorkshire ripper....on a faulty tail light. On the whole No. plate thingy, there is a legal required font & digit size required stoppable now offence and carries a hefty fine if its not sorted swift smart, as well as an NCT failure.

Also the only No. plate allowed in a front window of a vehicle is a trade plate used in the motor trade. The vehicle must have plates affixed both front and rear in the designated place.

have_a_go_hero · 14-12-2011 06:39PM

i think we are going a bit off topic here......

Esel · 23-12-2011 01:15AM

iceage wrote: »

On the whole No. plate thingy, there is a legal required font & digit size required stoppable now offence and carries a hefty fine if its not sorted swift smart, as well as an NCT failure.

There is no font specification in the relevant Statutory Instrument. There are requirements for character/digit colour, width and height, character stroke width, spacing, county name, IRL/EU logo etc.

Terrontress · 24-12-2011 10:50AM

iceage wrote: »

Also the only No. plate allowed in a front window of a vehicle is a trade plate used in the motor trade.

Depends on the vehicle. I have seen buses / coaches in particular that have the numberplate included in the glass front window. As long as it is visible, standing vertical and legibile within the correct specification then I don't see an issue with it being in the front window.

msg11 · 25-12-2011 06:20PM

Terrontress wrote: »

Depends on the vehicle. I have seen buses / coaches in particular that have the numberplate included in the glass front window. As long as it is visible, standing vertical and legibile within the correct specification then I don't see an issue with it being in the front window.

Would I be right in saying this buses back plate is not legal ?

Terrontress · 25-12-2011 08:10PM

msg11 wrote: »

Terrontress wrote: »

Depends on the vehicle. I have seen buses / coaches in particular that have the numberplate included in the glass front window. As long as it is visible, standing vertical and legibile within the correct specification then I don't see an issue with it being in the front window.

Would I be right in saying this buses back plate is not legal ?

To be honest, I cannot understand your question. The word buses suggests more than one, there are two buses in the picture yet your question seems to relate to only one with the use of "is".

Which, if it is only one, bus are you talking about?

In either case I do not know whether the number plates are legal or not. Neither example is what I was referring to though; a numberplate in a window.

msg11 · 25-12-2011 09:23PM

Terrontress wrote: »

To be honest, I cannot understand your question. The word buses suggests more than one, there are two buses in the picture yet your question seems to relate to only one with the use of "is".

Which, if it is only one, bus are you talking about?

In either case I do not know whether the number plates are legal or not. Neither example is what I was referring to though; a numberplate in a window.

I didn't mean to quote your post. And it's the bus on the right. I was referring to buses as in, Dublin Bus running them type of buses around the city. Legally they have no European flag displayed.

Terrontress · 25-12-2011 09:29PM

msg11 wrote: »

Terrontress wrote: »

To be honest, I cannot understand your question. The word buses suggests more than one, there are two buses in the picture yet your question seems to relate to only one with the use of "is".

Which, if it is only one, bus are you talking about?

In either case I do not know whether the number plates are legal or not. Neither example is what I was referring to though; a numberplate in a window.

I didn't mean to quote your post. And it's the bus on the right. I was referring to buses as in, Dublin Bus running them type of buses around the city. Legally they have no European flag displayed.

Is the white on black legal on the Dublin Bus either? I am sure someone will know but I think that due to the ages it will be legal on the London bus but not on the Dublin one. In fact, I reckon that if a private motorist had a backlit numberplate in those colours, they'd be stopped. On the other hand, would DB really break the law? Could they have dispensation?

Esel · 28-12-2011 11:48PM

Pretty sure that backlit plates on buses are allowed in the relevant S.I. No. 318/1992 — Vehicle Registration and Taxation Regulations, 1992.

22. The provisions of paragraphs 2 to 21 of this Schedule shall not apply in the case of a large public service vehicle (within the meaning of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961)) on which an identification mark is so constructed and used that it is illuminated by transparency or translucency and in such a case the characters of the identification mark shall appear white when the mark is so illuminated and shall appear at all other times white against a black background.

msg11 · 29-12-2011 01:49PM

Esel wrote: »

Pretty sure that backlit plates on buses are allowed in the relevant S.I. No. 318/1992 — Vehicle Registration and Taxation Regulations, 1992.

Interesting , IIRC Dublin Bus started running the Volvo Olympian in 1991/1992. Maybe someone in Dublin Bus was going ****, the back plate is not legal. Cheers for clearing that up for me it's something that has been annoying me for a while.

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