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    #1442
    westdub
    Registered Users Posts: 690 ✭✭✭westdub


    Never believe everything on Wikipedia as the facts are often wrong or deliberately put up by people messing...

    From the Official LAPD web site....
    The "Helicopter Unit" experienced major expansion in 1974 and became officially designated as Air Support Division (ASD). Air Support Division consisted of 77 sworn personnel with 15 helicopters and a Cessna 210 in it’s fleet.

    The fleet remained virtually unchanged until 1988 when the first Aerospatiale AS350B-1 was added to the fleet. Today at full capacity, the fleet consists of:
    • 14 - Eurocopter AS350B2
    • 5 - Bell Jet Ranger B3s
    • 1 - King Air Fixed Wing
    A study commissioned by NASA and conducted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) Space Technology Applications Office confirmed the study and report findings as follows:
    • The number of Part 1 Property Crimes is reduced when an LAPD helicopter is overhead.
    • The number of arrests associated with radio calls is three times higher with the involvement of LAPD aircrews.
    • The citizens of Los Angeles accept helicopter patrols as a necessary part of the City’s police system and strongly favor their continuation.
    • Department ground based officers universally support a strong airborne law enforcement program within the department.
    http://www.lapdonline.org/air_support_division/content_basic_view/1179

    Also their equipment page makes a lot of country's army's look under-armed...:eek:
    http://www.lapdonline.org/lapd_equipment


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    #1443
    EireGun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭EireGun


    westdub wrote: »
    Never believe everything on Wikipedia as the facts are often wrong or deliberately put up by people messing...

    From the Official LAPD web site....

    http://www.lapdonline.org/air_support_division/content_basic_view/1179

    Also their equipment page makes a lot of country's army's look under-armed...:eek:
    http://www.lapdonline.org/lapd_equipment

    Fair enough, but your man makes it out as if I was lying. Repeating incorrect facts is not lying.


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    #1444
    source
    Registered Users Posts: 5,271 ✭✭✭source


    EireGun wrote: »
    Fair enough, but your man makes it out as if I was lying. Repeating incorrect facts is not lying.

    I'm not making out you're lying, I'm just saying you're better off going to the official site than a community edited one for your facts.


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    #1445
    EireGun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭EireGun


    source wrote: »
    I'm not making out you're lying, I'm just saying you're better off going to the official site than a community edited one for your facts.

    Noted.


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    #1446
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,932 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    And back on topic...


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    #1447
    Scouser
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    an unmarked 06 5series BMW was spotted on nassau st last night with two tango members conducting a very low key PSV checkpoint

    never new traffic corps has such high powered unmarked motors for such low key work


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    #1448
    D Trent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭D Trent


    Scouser wrote: »
    an unmarked 06 5series BMW was spotted on nassau st last night with two tango members conducting a very low key PSV checkpoint

    never new traffic corps has such high powered unmarked motors for such low key work
    Wow. Spotted by who?


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    #1449
    Scouser
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    D Trent wrote: »
    Wow. Spotted by who?

    Arnie Pye in the Sky for Channel 6 News


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    #1450
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Scouser wrote: »
    an unmarked 06 5series BMW was spotted on nassau st last night with two tango members conducting a very low key PSV checkpoint

    never new traffic corps has such high powered unmarked motors for such low key work

    May not be traffic was it estate?


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    #1451
    Capri
    Registered Users Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭Capri


    Could be an old Ministerial escort car, saw a 07 one yesterday outside Gov't buildings. :confused:

    They'd be usually well cared for and serviced I'd say (can't see them chasing anything but so as easy as buying a s/h one as discussed here before ??


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    #1452
    Scouser
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    POGAN wrote: »
    May not be traffic was it estate?

    not estate -saloon. blue lights in grill, nowhere else from what i could see (none on dash, cant remember if there were wingtips or not)

    was on patrol by the looks of it, two uniformed members conducting a PSV checkpoint


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    #1453
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Was or is there a pool of unmarked traffic Corp vehicles ?
    A few year ago a Subaru was doing speed traps outside my house (saw it in midleton station later) , and I got pulled over by a silver BMW about 4 years ago, lately all i see is the same Mondeo ...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #1454
    DAVE1972
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭DAVE1972


    between midelton & fermoy circa 99 , they had 2 alfa 155 2.4v6 s in traffic a silver & black one , remember them well as i had fiat marea at the time and would see them regulary at the fiat alfa garage in glanmiire


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    #1455
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    DAVE1972 wrote: »
    between midelton & fermoy circa 99 , they had 2 alfa 155 2.4v6 s in traffic a silver & black one , remember them well as i had fiat marea at the time and would see them regulary at the fiat alfa garage in glanmiire

    They were north cork traffic cars remember one of them was in crags during chase in n20 cork to mallow road

    Lucky to have mondeos now


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    #1456
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Markcheese wrote: »
    Was or is there a pool of unmarked traffic Corp vehicles ?
    A few year ago a Subaru was doing speed traps outside my house (saw it in midleton station later) , and I got pulled over by a silver BMW about 4 years ago, lately all i see is the same Mondeo ...

    Ya in bigger station you maybe have pool cars but most station you take any keys you'd be lucky to get


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    #1457
    DAVE1972
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭DAVE1972


    i know its shocking, theyre used to be 2.5v6 vectra on mallow rd aswell at the tiime, great car , i see youghal up to last summer were using a red 04 mondeo , the age of cars ive seen around cork is shocking especially unmarked , in blackpool ive seen 2 06 avensis , 1 05 mondeo and an 04 focus , all unmarked , oh and 03 vectra as i mentioned earlier, ,, wonder when all those new hyundai/focuses arrive


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    #1458
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    The age wouldn't really bother me ... Condition and cost of maintenance would though... A 2.5 /3 litre might last massive miles don't know you'd get the same out of a 1.6 with turbo,dmf,dpf ect ect . Not to mention being driven by people with heavy boots ....

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #1459
    DAVE1972
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭DAVE1972


    top of the range sporty diesels like insignia , audi a4s would be suitable and safe plus maintainence be reasonabe , last well to 300km im sure you 100km on timing belts on those models


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    #1460
    DAVE1972
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭DAVE1972


    just a thought , there was a similar recession in the 80s to now, probably worse , and the garda fleet was awful aswell at the time , i remember they had a huge number of those austin montegoes & maestros , dreadful yokes , everytime i passed johnson& perrott motor dealers in emmett place cork you would see about 4 montegos in getting repaired they then starting replacing them with better cars eventually like carina e , bluebird & sierras and nissan sunnys ,, can anybody remember the cars in their area during that time ,, for me i remember the blue talbot avenger, green mazda 323 , gold 2.0hl montego , blue maestro , nissan sunny , the 2.0l cortina automatic .


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    #1461
    Old diesel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    DAVE1972 wrote: »
    top of the range sporty diesels like insignia , audi a4s would be suitable and safe plus maintainence be reasonabe , last well to 300km im sure you 100km on timing belts on those models

    The modern diesels (generally) aren't always up to the pace - and Insignias aren't always perfect for reliability - and neither are Audis.

    Its not they are bad - Audis anyway - but you wouldn't be buying them simply on the basis of awesome durability

    That's not having a go at Audi or Opel - because - from where im standing - many modern cars are like that.

    Now if you want a decent traffic type car with good performance and roadholding than an Audi A4 or A6 with Quattro would have fine potential on paper.

    Issue with the Fords (imo) is how they are specced over here - for garda use.

    For example in Uk you can buy a 2 litre 163 ps Focus estate.

    In saying that - some of the new garda Mondeos came with a 197 bhp 2.2 diesel engine.

    If that's not powerful enough - you can have a Focus ST estate - with 240/250 ps type of power.

    Ford in the Uk actually had built one police spec Focus ST estate - for showroom/demo purposes.

    So theres a decent range on offer in the Ford range in terms of performance


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    #1462
    Old diesel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Old diesel


    DAVE1972 wrote: »
    just a thought , there was a similar recession in the 80s to now, probably worse , and the garda fleet was awful aswell at the time , i remember they had a huge number of those austin montegoes & maestros , dreadful yokes , everytime i passed johnson& perrott motor dealers in emmett place cork you would see about 4 montegos in getting repaired they then starting replacing them with better cars eventually like carina e , bluebird & sierras and nissan sunnys ,, can anybody remember the cars in their area during that time ,, for me i remember the blue talbot avenger, green mazda 323 , gold 2.0hl montego , blue maestro , nissan sunny , the 2.0l cortina automatic .

    I remember the Bluebirds been used as Garda cars - but they mustn't have been that great - as they only seemed to ever have bought one batch in early 1987 and didn't buy anymore.

    They used lots of Sierra Sapphires - they were some of the first cars i really started noticing as Garda cars - and i remember all the Carina IIs.

    I can only assume that someone was feeling generous with the kitty in 87 for garda cars - because in 87 they seemed to buy a lot of Carina IIs and Sierra Sapphires and of course the Bluebirds.

    Does anyone know why why some of the Sierras and the odd Bluebird were white rather than the normal blue.


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    #1463
    DAVE1972
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭DAVE1972


    WHITE CARS BACK THEN WITH BLUE STRIPE WERE TRAFFIC CARS, SOME HAD ORANGE STRIPE, IN DUBLIN CITY CENTRE ALL SIERRAS WERE 2.0GL, REMEMBER BEEN UP FOR ALL IRELANDS, ALSO THEY HAD THE OLD STYLE MARKED UP TOYOTA CAMRYS 20GLI ZG REG WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE THOSE 86, THEY LASTED ALONG TIME I RECALL


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    #1464
    Consy90
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Consy90


    Seen a nice blue 08 BMW today. Hardly the new one in dmr. Was unmarked saloon? Any pics of the hyundais yet?


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    #1465
    EireGun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭EireGun


    The other day I saw a newish dark coloured unmarked BMW 5 Series tearing down the N7 from the Red Cow towards Newlands Cross, interesting thing was it had red/blue lights on the sun visor (like below, drivers side I think), guessing it was Special Branch. No chance of a capture at that speed.

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    Another Special Branch BMW 5 Series (2007) spotted in Wicklow a few months ago...
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    #1466
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Consy90 wrote: »
    Seen a nice blue 08 BMW today. Hardly the new one in dmr. Was unmarked saloon? Any pics of the hyundais yet?

    If you know one in Carlow they have one I40


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    #1467
    Scouser
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    anyone have any info on my spot of an unmarked 06 BMW being used by Tango mules?


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    #1468
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Scouser wrote: »
    anyone have any info on my spot of an unmarked 06 BMW being used by Tango mules?

    Yes it's based in DMR the green one ya?


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    #1469
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,534 ✭✭✭kub


    DAVE1972 wrote: »
    just a thought , there was a similar recession in the 80s to now, probably worse , and the garda fleet was awful aswell at the time , i remember they had a huge number of those austin montegoes & maestros , dreadful yokes , everytime i passed johnson& perrott motor dealers in emmett place cork you would see about 4 montegos in getting repaired they then starting replacing them with better cars eventually like carina e , bluebird & sierras and nissan sunnys ,, can anybody remember the cars in their area during that time ,, for me i remember the blue talbot avenger, green mazda 323 , gold 2.0hl montego , blue maestro , nissan sunny , the 2.0l cortina automatic .

    The Nissan Bluebirds, very nice looking patrol cars, but apparently they were not suitable for 24hour duty cycles.
    What always struck out in my mind in those days was, why was it that traffic cars and urban patrol cars used to have 2 plant pot lights on their roofs while the rural patrol cars only had one on top of the Garda roof sign.
    Anyone know why?


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    #1470
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Scouser wrote: »
    anyone have any info on my spot of an unmarked 06 BMW being used by Tango mules?

    What do you need to know other than the info you already gave?


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    #1471
    Scouser
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Scouser


    POGAN wrote: »
    Yes it's based in DMR the green one ya?

    thats her

    never knew Tango members would have such a motor for routine work


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