FREE ONE-WAY REGO PLATE SCREWS 🚗🪛
Queensland Police Service are “turning the screws on crime” in our car park tomorrow morning!
Simply visit the QPS team in the Coles undercover carpark from 8am to 11am, tomorrow Wednesday, 13 November to have the Queensland Police fit one-way screws to your registration plates …. while you shop.
I would have thought crime prevention would be a vital part of their role in the community and free up additional resources to solve more important cases. But that's just logic, who uses that these days.
for QLD cops???
If they did their jobs, perhaps the crime rate would be reduced & this wouldn't be needed. A simple community announcement telling people to use one-way screws would suffice. Even getting mechanics on board to keep screws on hand for when people come in, or even making them available at TMR so people can get a set and install them.
Well then don't keep illegal shit in your car.
I don't.
Tell me you steal license plates without admitting you steal license plates comment?
No. If they (Police or State Gov) want people to use one-way screws, they should make them available at TMR or Police Stations & people can install them themselves rather than Police wasting their time/resources when they could be out solving real crimes.
Please enlighten us Widget as to what you're doing to help reduce crime rates?
Why would I do anything, I'm not a Police officer.
Mt Ommaney seems to have a high number of community type officers that don’t seem to do any active policing, lots of community outreach
Lol. And a lot of theft, but not of licence plates, mostly cars.
Another dumbass who hasn't a clue about how police operate.
I'm well aware of how they operate.
Always free at Police Station
What a deal, what a deal, what a deal, what a mighty good deal.
Say it again now?
also it'd be helpful if the officer you used in the ad didnt look like a young Peter Dutton
he's one of yours right?
I don't think that Peter Dutton ever looked young.
I assumed he looked like Tom Riddle
Name of my next sex tape.
thats what she said
SC?
Oh, shopping centre.
the QPS team in the Coles undercover
Can't even goddamn go to the shop anymore without the unmarked buggers.
This is the new rule they introduced that all cops visiting Coles must have mayonnaise and cabbage in a bag with them at all times.
It's new the Coles Law
Serious Question
When I sell my car unregistered, how do I get the plates off?
They're just normal screws with an annoying head. There's probably a proper tool but you'll likely manage with a rubber band for grip or a pair of pliers.
Tools which, thankfully, thieves aren’t allowed to purchase.
normally you just rivet them
and then drill them out when needed
it targets opportunistic theft… of petrol
My wife's car had them - the ones where you screw in with a flat bladed driver but they 'cam out' if you want to remove them. You can sometimes grip the head of the screw with pliers or vice grips. Or push a flat bladed screw driver onto the screw head hard enough so you get enough friction to get drive without it riding up the ramps. It depends on the screws, how tight they are in, what access you have to the screws to get tools onto them. A dremel with a cutting disc will get a slot onto one of those screws pretty quickly.
The one way screws are a good deterrent but are not totally impregnable. It's a case of the number plate thief will probably just move on to the next car.
If you push hard it gets enough bite, if that fails then file/dremel some notches.
They really dont stop plate theft, just make it harder than the next car so nobody will put in the extra effort when the next car has standard phillips heads.
Saves you dealing with plate replacement and possible drama from a petrol theft, hit and run, speeding fine on your plates. It would have to be someone with a targeted grudge/prank against you to bother.
Seriously. This is a gross misuse of police time. The police, or insurance companies, or some politicians, could pay non-police officers significantly less to do the same thing.
A few months back we had a qps display set up in our local shopping centre for a week taking selfies with the local oldies sitting on police motorbikes.
I am not anti "community engagement". But surely they should not be spending time on this sort of thing when it's near impossible to get them to come to a simple break and enter in a timely fashion.
So not every operational police officer is assigned to front line policing duties. Engaging the public in a non-hostile or incident focused space is really important to establish rapport and remind people that they aren't robots, but it also empowers people to speak up about issues affecting themselves or their community they might not be willing to in another context.
This.
Maybe every police officer should be assigned to front-line duties. Get crime under control, not relaxing at shopping centres or sitting behind a bush doing some State Revenue raising.
If the Police want to engage the public in a non-hostile way, they can start by properly doing investigations of bad cops & get rid of them.
That's a very one dimensional and frankly uninformed perspective. More police doesn't automatically equate to less crime, just a more timely response to less serious incidents. Calls for service are triaged and attended to according to priority, and serious incidents are always attended to immediately. Addressing why people commit crimes is more important than having sufficient bodies to respond to every complaint. If you want to "get crime under control" you'd be better off investing the money spent on public education and health (specifically mental health services). Less stupid & crazy people self medicating on meth would have a material impact on the number of reported crimes. Simply locking people up doesn't work (check out the US experience). By & large Australian police forces are highly competent with very low incidences of corruption, due to the presence of oversight bodies (CCC, ICAC etc).
@Ham Dragon: Not really one dimensional. More police solving crimes means more crimes getting solved (or should be getting solved if they're good at their job). Everything else I agree with, but is unrelated to the issue I mentioned earlier. Using Police to install screws and hang out with the community (even those ridiculous 'get to know a cop' coffee shop meet-n-greets is a waste). Overhaul the legal system is required imo.
By & large Australian police forces are highly competent with very low incidences of corruption, due to the presence of oversight bodies (CCC, ICAC etc).
How many complaints actually get investigated. How many investigated are done so by the same department where they simply investigate themselves and find no wrong-doing. Of the Police found guilty of wrong-doing, how many are actually punished? Very few I'd say. It seems most can 'quit' and get a job elsewhere, or they're put on paid-leave. Usually it's the cops who get called out on the media because video footage of them doing something bad has gone viral, then the police act due to pressure from the media & bad publicity.
Oversight bodies are toothless tigers.
@Widget: Police are very good at solving crimes, hence the nation's jails are full to overflowing, they cannot build them fast enough, but irrespective jails do not solve the problems of people committing low-middle tier offences and then being after being released are placed at the bottom of the societal heap…therefore having no impetus to improve themselves, so they just reoffend & the cycle continues. Governments throw a lot of money & resources - perhaps not enough - trying to steer people away from the justice system, and a small cog in that machine is engaging the public and building positive image and rapport with them, especially young people. Again, more cops doesn't equal less crime. More opportunity & education equals less crime.
Using these currently after my last plates were stolen. Any deterent is a better then nothing
Curious, what car did you have? Wondering if certain cars are targeted or any plate will do for them.
Old'ish car ('06), Forester… nothing flash about it. It did have the old school yellow plates? But otherwise nothing really distinguishing about it, i was in a large row of cars too and only mine were taken. I put it down to the old school number plates as that's honestly all i can think that made it different from any of the other cars in the lot. Maybe they're easier to sell on the black market or wherever it is they end up.
Crazy thing is i was driving around for a week before someone asked me why i was driving with no plates!
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