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Old 01-16-2004, 05:08 AM   #2
Skippy1
Elminster
 

Join Date: December 9, 2003
Location: England (Ex-pat Aussie)
Age: 62
Posts: 447
As you say Mem, it's a hard one.

My thoughts are that you can't just let them get away. But there are other ways of dealing with it than driving around like maniacs chasing them. Been a while now, as you know, since I lived in Sydney. But as I remember a lot of the coppers in the Highway Patrol especially, used to be young "gung ho" types. Amazing what a gun on the hip can do to a young blokes demeanor. The police used to be fairly well endowed with choppers, and I expect this is still the case. I can't see the problem with simply taking the cars details and radioing them through to control with a general direction of the vehicle when last seen, then leaving it to the choppers to see where it stops and then send a car aroud to the address. Also just about every major intersection has cameras on them, so the rego could be recorded. In the case of stolen cars, at least the chances of it being recovered in one piece would be greater.

On another topic though Mem, any word about Roamers site?
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