WA Police to lose 50 cars [Archive]

RICEY

20-10-2009, 08:03 PM

hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahaha

i remember when they had plans to convert most of the fleet to astra deisels?
like in the u.k

I serviced an unmarked auto astra diesel today complete with the same red and blues as the unmarked VEs on the dash and rear window. Dunno if it was a traffic car or not but it can certainly ping you if it wants to hahaha.

Fozzy

20-10-2009, 08:10 PM

I dont know what makes me feel dumber... Reading youtube or perthnow comments.

T-Diddy

20-10-2009, 08:13 PM

watch the auctions for some cheap xr6t's eh...

Joe

20-10-2009, 08:13 PM

LOL @ those Perthnow comments.. it goes to show how fucking clueless some people are.

Ralph of Midland 7:00pm today
Comment 16 of 25

What about getting the cops to use all of those confiscated HOON and unlicensed driver vehicles as operational police vehicles? A few of those vehicles are pretty fast and would do nicely. They are just going to waste sitting in a holding compound anyway. That would allow the cops to get rid of a lot more of their leased vehicles.

Great idea, lets give all the cops unregistered EA Falcons and VN Commodores, and a Postie bike :D

ecent

20-10-2009, 08:18 PM

FUCKING LOL.

Haven't we already established that most hoon cars are vs commdores?
WOW, clueless idiots.

Torquen

20-10-2009, 10:00 PM

Haha, wont be catching fuck all people now!

31-EVO

20-10-2009, 10:06 PM

LOL @ those Perthnow comments.. it goes to show how fucking clueless some people are.

Great idea, lets give all the cops unregistered EA Falcons and VN Commodores, and a Postie bike :D

He lives in Midland, so we can safely assume he graduated year 7, maybe.
Our local department have only just had the XR6T for about 6 months, they'll be sour as fuck.

scj91

20-10-2009, 10:06 PM

haha cheap fg xr6t's anyone?

BrAzZ

20-10-2009, 10:10 PM

hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahaha

i remember when they had plans to convert most of the fleet to astra deisels?
like in the u.k

spotted an astra police car on graham farmer today

Niksmo

20-10-2009, 10:31 PM

some1 has to leave a comment "antilag like's this"

Butcher

20-10-2009, 10:52 PM

"The cop cars are factory tune. If you can do better than 180 they cant catch you so they don't try"

Basic

20-10-2009, 11:06 PM

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.gadling.com/media/2007/07/police17.jpg

Yeah.

Brockas

20-10-2009, 11:08 PM

hahahaha

Can you imagine a 500hp car being chased by a Vectra?

Macca

20-10-2009, 11:29 PM

"The cop cars are factory tune. If you can do better than 180 they cant catch you so they don't try"

xr6ts go faster then 180 so i dont see your point. Also they wont be just dropping the current cars they just wont replace them. by the time that time comes they will have different budget

Butcher

20-10-2009, 11:35 PM

I think you missed the dodgy F&F quote hack

Macca

20-10-2009, 11:53 PM

I think you missed the dodgy F&F quote hack

probably because i have never watched it lol

Carry on

Sully

21-10-2009, 12:05 AM

before everyone gets all excitipants and goes for freeway runs, they're probably not going to unload all their xr6t's right now. this just means they can't buy them anymore. the ones they've got at the moment should be staying in service until it's time to move them along (ie, run into the ground)

mehow2g

21-10-2009, 12:08 AM

Less money spent on cars more on cameras.. they will profit more.

fourseven

21-10-2009, 12:57 AM

It's hard to imagine why there are so many XR6Ts in the fleet anyway. The first WRX the WA Police took delivery of ended more pursuits in 1 week than the XR range did in 3 months.

Keep the XR6Ts for highway work and long stretches of road and fill the suburbs with a combination of WRX and Astras. Fuck off the dedicated traffic enforcement wankers and sell 2 of the booze buses that are constantly sitting in the fenced off areas around town. There shouldn't be a specialist unit to handle traffic infringements, it should be a small percentage of daily duty work to catch people speeding.

If anyone is going to keep an eye out for ex Police fleet cars, my advice would be to avoid the black ones. :p

Fozzy

21-10-2009, 01:02 AM

Haha 79 Division look after their fleet :P

fourseven

21-10-2009, 01:18 AM

Haha 79 Division look after their fleet :P

Hahaha shit I haven't heard that name for years. All MIG cars get ordered with 10 additional front bumpers.

:lol:

Fozzy

21-10-2009, 01:23 AM

Yeah, I know MIG is to airy fairy 79 Div carries an air of mystique that makes people wonder hehe.

We've Rammed.. I mean Been Rammed!

fourseven

21-10-2009, 01:43 AM

Yeah, I know MIG is to airy fairy 79 Div carries an air of mystique that makes people wonder hehe.

We've Rammed.. I mean Been Rammed!

Yeah they certainly don't make them like they used to. I'm pretty sure the cost of repairing cars, paying medical bills, and replacement tyres has reduced significantly since 79 were disbanded.

The patch that would make the most hardened criminal shit a brick.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/512/97103682.jpg

siamak

21-10-2009, 01:53 AM

The prices of XR bumpers are pretty ridic anyway compared to stock. Something like 1.7k versus 300 bucks. Waste of tastepayers money everytime they had a nudge.

gav

21-10-2009, 01:56 AM

i wanna be a cop. il do pursuits

cplagz

21-10-2009, 05:04 AM

Be thankful you aren't over here in QLD, they got all sorts of undercover cars, XR6T's, VW Golf GTIs, Chrysler 300Cs .... it's quite random!

cplagz

21-10-2009, 05:06 AM

At the time, WA Police executive director Greg Italiano said the force had requested an exemption from Treasury from the fleet cuts but had been told it would have to reduce its 1400 vehicles by 10 per cent.

I'm pretty sure 10% of 1400 is 140 too ... not 50 ?

BOSS 290

21-10-2009, 06:16 AM

hahahaha

Can you imagine a 500hp car being chased by a Vectra?

Never worried me when a XR6T chased the ute :lol:

My mate is making his way through the academy now, he's fucking spewing hahaha

Butcher

21-10-2009, 07:55 AM

Im in the police vehicle service management and some of the repair jobs that come across my desk leave you thinking WTF how did they do that. To add to fourseven's comment of staying away from black service vehicles id also add to that list the group of cars they do driver training in up at barbagello, they burn through at least 4 sets of pads and two sets of rotors per car every track day they do.

Joe

21-10-2009, 08:10 AM

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/512/97103682.jpg

Ha ha good ol Divvy 79.

My best mates brother-in-law was part of Division 79.

We used to hear all sorts of incomplete awesome stories (but never enough information so you could work out where, when or who was involved).. and was told to never repeat them :D

_S9_

21-10-2009, 08:19 AM

Cops should all drive Astra's IMO.

It doesn't matter what vehicle they drive, THEY WILL CATCH YOU eventually, they have your rego, they know where you live, etc.

Sciflyer

21-10-2009, 08:22 AM

hahahaha

Can you imagine a 500hp car being chased by a Vectra?

Does it really matter that much though, by the time your realise youre being chased theyve got your plate anyway, either way youre fucked

DISTRBD

21-10-2009, 01:29 PM

Cops should all drive Astra's IMO.

It doesn't matter what vehicle they drive, THEY WILL CATCH YOU eventually, they have your rego, they know where you live, etc.

Aslong as they get rego

ReaperSS

21-10-2009, 02:00 PM

Ha ha good ol Divvy 79.

My best mates brother-in-law was part of Division 79.

We used to hear all sorts of incomplete awesome stories (but never enough information so you could work out where, when or who was involved).. and was told to never repeat them :D

I spent 12 hours locked at midland CIB .
2 guys from d79 picked me up.
Was very interesting

Halle Terry

21-10-2009, 02:05 PM

I'm uneducated in this Division 79 you guys speak so fondly about, mind filling me in?

SSICK

21-10-2009, 02:07 PM

can someone please elaborate on div79?? im quite bored and kinda intrigued.

wat happened ninj?

ReaperSS

21-10-2009, 02:15 PM

Division 79 were a section of the police (detectives) .
Im my experiences they were very rough and lots got done away from cameras and was painful lol

sprint347

21-10-2009, 02:20 PM

so when will these beauties make their way to the auctions?

Butcher

21-10-2009, 02:21 PM

Ill post up when i clear a few from active duty and send them of to the auction.

evil.e30

21-10-2009, 11:02 PM

fourseven

21-10-2009, 11:42 PM

can someone please elaborate on div79?? im quite bored and kinda intrigued.

wat happened ninj?

79 Division (also known as D squad, or Delta, and when the Police cars were marked with a single letter in their call sign the cars were D XX) was formed in 1979 and are known today as the Major Incident Group (MIG). Their role is to provide rapid response to major incidents or incidents in progress - pursuits, homicides, armed robbery, sexual assault etc

Each 'unit' operates in pairs with a detective and a uniformed officer and traditionally both officers are very experienced in the job. MIG operate 24/7 and generally if they attend an incident and apprehend someone they can either follow through with the case until prosecution or hand it off for others to deal with and get onto other incidents. During the 80's and 90's Division 79 were rough as fuck. I know of a few war stories where they would force themselves into houses to arrest people who were known to use shotguns for armed robbery and as a joke would leave their service weapons in the car. Crazy, insane, tough pingpingpingpings. They just don't make coppers like that anymore.

The MIG today usually head up pursuits, damage a fuck load of black XR6Ts, hand out the occasional beating (read: they deal with mainly violent offenders) and generally do shit that most 'average' coppers would think twice about. They don't really deal with the general public or petty crime, they only handle the tough stuff.

Mistikal

21-10-2009, 11:51 PM

The MIG today usually head up pursuits, damage a fuck load of black XR6Ts, hand out the occasional beating, and generally do shit that most 'average' coppers would think twice about. They don't really deal with the general public or petty crime, they only handle the tough stuff.

Ahhhhhh that explains ALOT. Would explain to me why usually in the wee hours, you see a group of Black XR's parked at a Servo, Macca's, Alfred's, etc.

YOUR MATE

21-10-2009, 11:56 PM

fourseven

22-10-2009, 12:01 AM

Had one of those cars baiting me one night on Albany Hwy. Was wondering why an unmarked xr6t was videotaping me driving beside them, foglights on, no headlights, pushing for runs. Pulled over and called a mate who's step dad's a copper n asked wtf was going on.

I'd be VERY surprised if that was MIG. Their cars occasionally get used in other areas, and MIG certainly don't bother with traffic shit unless it's a pursuit.

YOUR MATE

22-10-2009, 12:47 AM

Holding handycam, one in uniform one not, like 2am on a weeknight. Cameras on dash also. Who else would it be? TEG dont carry camera's that I've seen, could be wrong tho.

Evilteddy

22-10-2009, 01:19 AM

Funny you should say that, i spotted a Green brand new VE SS this afternoon.
One uniformed officer, the other not. Arresting 2 guys on Reid highway.

Look like they'd been a bit rough as well...

mantou

22-10-2009, 01:58 AM

^ pretty sure that would be the same one that pulled me and a mate over the other night! lol

kiasu

22-10-2009, 02:01 AM

tribal sticker on back window?

fourseven

22-10-2009, 02:37 AM

Funny you should say that, i spotted a Green brand new VE SS this afternoon.

VE SV6?

Evilteddy

22-10-2009, 07:09 AM

tribal sticker on back window?

Not sure if i was a tribal sticker, but it had something on the back window

VE SV6?

No SS.

Lonewolf

22-10-2009, 09:46 AM

seen the green sv6 with the tribal/surf sticker getting around a huge amount lately.

coFF33

22-10-2009, 12:41 PM

they still aint getting rid of the eye in the sky.

your fucked either way if ya wanna run from them

RICEY

22-10-2009, 03:38 PM

Not sure if i was a tribal sticker, but it had something on the back window

No SS.

SV6

Torquen

22-10-2009, 04:44 PM

Cops can't have V8's...so what Ricey said.

Evilteddy

22-10-2009, 06:10 PM

SV6

I swear i said SS at least twice.

Cops can't have V8's...so what Ricey said.

That rule was changed when they were allowed to drive XR6-T's...

RICEY

22-10-2009, 06:12 PM

I swear i said SS at least twice.

That rule was changed when they were allowed to drive XR6-T's...

No it wasnt, youre mistaken. (twice or is it 3 times now?)

Evilteddy

22-10-2009, 06:32 PM

Wish i could know everything about anything like you Ricey...

You know how i know it was an SS?
It might be because it had SS badges... Considering i was parked next to it in peak hour traffic i think i'd know the difference between a 'SV6' and a 'SS' badge...

Bomber

22-10-2009, 06:42 PM

The first WRX the WA Police took delivery of ended more pursuits in 1 week than the XR range did in 3 months.
ah me chaser, shes a weapon

Fuck off the dedicated traffic enforcement wankers and sell 2 of the booze buses that are constantly sitting in the fenced off areas around town.
Negative. There should be more recuits to be able to put these units into effect to catch the people who are driving around pissed/looping off some hard cut bikkies.

RICEY

22-10-2009, 06:45 PM

Bomber

22-10-2009, 06:48 PM

So my car must be a chev because it has chev badges.

Retard.

Exactly. So why put fucking Chev badges on it? To be different?

Oh, wait........

LOL

Evilteddy

22-10-2009, 06:49 PM

So my car must be a chev because it has chev badges.

Retard.

But it's got a chev motor... right? isn't that the reason everyone puts those badges on?

So in fact, it has chev badges, because it contains a chev? So the car i saw with SS badges, using your logic... would be an SS...

RICEY

22-10-2009, 06:49 PM

Exactly. So why put fucking Chev badges on it? To be different?

Oh, wait........

LOL

Because the oversized holden badges are fucking ugly !!

RICEY

22-10-2009, 06:51 PM

But it's got a chev motor... right? isn't that the reason everyone puts those badges on?

So in fact, it has chev badges, because it contains a chev? So the car i saw with SS badges, using your logic... would be an SS...

No if you were using my logic, or any logic for that matter, you would think oh its an SV6 with SS badges those sneaky cops. Just as the stickers on the back window are an attempt to throw people.

Kye

22-10-2009, 06:52 PM

FUCKING LOL

Countdown to the threats of violence starts now!!

Bomber

22-10-2009, 06:53 PM

Because the oversized holden badges are fucking ugly !!

Granted, but what makes me LOL, I mean really get into a thigh slapper is when you see a Chev badged Holden with Southern Cross sticker. National pride fail NOT SAME

RICEY

22-10-2009, 06:53 PM

FUCKING LOL

Countdown to the threats of violence starts now!!

Why would I threaten Glen? I like Glen.

RICEY

22-10-2009, 06:53 PM

Granted, but what makes me LOL, I mean really get into a thigh slapper is when you see a Chev badged Holden with Southern Cross sticker. National pride fail NOT SAME

lol

Evilteddy

22-10-2009, 06:57 PM

Right, you like me, yet i'm a retard, and not using any logic...

Cool...

It was an SS... try and 'discuss' with me all you want.
There's a distinctive sound of a v8 compared to an sv6.
Pretty sure it was a Government car as plates were [1QEC-***]

RICEY

22-10-2009, 06:59 PM

I like special people you cant take advantage of them.

Cop cars dont have govt plates?

Evilteddy

22-10-2009, 07:03 PM

So... maybe they don't sit under the same rule as the "No v8's"
It still had blue and red flashing lights on the rear shelf and on the dash...

RICEY

22-10-2009, 07:11 PM

Wierd...

fourseven

22-10-2009, 11:29 PM

It was an SS... try and 'discuss' with me all you want.
There's a distinctive sound of a v8 compared to an sv6.
Pretty sure it was a Government car as plates were [1QEC-***]

And one of them was in a WA Police uniform?

I can tell you there are absolutely no V8s in the fleet, and Police vehicles are registered to the Commissioner of Police which is why none of them have government plates.

Mistikal

22-10-2009, 11:46 PM

And one of them was in a WA Police uniform?

I can tell you there are absolutely no V8s in the fleet, and Police vehicles are registered to the Commissioner of Police which is why none of them have government plates.

Jipped - and we get in the shit for selling/buying more than 7 cars a year. How's ya double standards? :lol:

fourseven

25-10-2009, 04:19 PM

Here's the (only) green commodore in the fleet.

SV6

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5308/greenei.jpg

Mistikal

25-10-2009, 05:06 PM

Saw that at Leach Hwy Maccas with Rhys about 2 months ago.

DISTRBD

25-10-2009, 05:26 PM

Here's the (only) green commodore in the fleet.

SV6

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5308/greenei.jpg

That pingpingpingping gets around then , green ve in bunno not long ago handing out yellows

fourseven

25-10-2009, 05:49 PM

That pingpingpingping gets around then , green ve in bunno not long ago handing out yellows

Yeah it's a traffic car that can be usually found at either end of the freeway and in regional areas as well. As of 4 weeks ago it was the only one in fleet, they could've purchased more I guess.

fourseven

25-10-2009, 11:20 PM

Not sure if anyone was watching but tonight's episode of The Force shows a glimpse of how MIG operate.

The car was south of the river but crossed district boundaries and raced to Alexander Heights to join a pursuit. Another car had started the pursuit but MIG took over once they arrived and managed to apprehend 1 of 3 suspects with guidance from Polair.

Halle Terry

25-10-2009, 11:26 PM