Can - OPP charged with stunt driving

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Maybe the cops should start using Radar Detectors:

February 10, 2009
John Burman
The Hamilton Spectator

BRANTFORD – The OPP have charged one of their own with stunt driving.

The OPP said today an intelligence officer has been charged with speeding after getting caught going 65 km over the limit.

Brant County OPP clocked the unmarked cruiser doing 165 km/h in a 100 zone on Highway 403 Jan. 31.

Detective Constable Heidi Fischer, who has been with the OPP four years, was on duty at the time.

But OPP Inspector Dave Ross said today an investigation found that the officer was not within the lawful execution of her duties at the time. Ross is deputy director of the OPP corporate communications bureau.

Ross did not say what time of day the car was stopped or if there was any other traffic on the highway.

Fischer is posted to the provincial operations intelligence bureau at OPP general headquarters in Orillia.

Her driver’s licence was suspended for the required seven days and the OPP unmarked vehicle was impounded for the same amount of time.

Fischer is charged with driving 50 km/h or more over the posted speed limit, contrary to the Highway Traffic Act.

She will appear in Brantford provincial court March 24.

Section 172 of the Highway Traffic Act covering high speeds is a law OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino has championed in a highly publicized bid to crack down on “stunt driving” in the province.

[lugnuts]

they need to get rid of that law.

[hockey005]

yes it sucks...i mean a week in jail come on!

[supercowpowers]

yes it sucks...i mean a week in jail come on!

Her driver’s licence was suspended for the required seven days and the OPP unmarked vehicle was impounded for the same amount of time.

Eh?

The car was impounded...

[Eloi]

In a way it is good thay taste their own medecine

Nevertheless ....speed is becoming one of the worse crime
a human being can do ....next step is rehab camp like
in Mao Tse Sung China

[FoolishOne]

I always knew there was something funny about women drivers. I always thought that women LEO's were even worse drivers. I definitely thought that Canadian LEO women were the worst...and this proves it.

[hockey005]

no if ontario u are caught doin 150 in a 100 (km/h) then its like a $1000 fine plus a week in jail if i am correct?

[HwyBear]

For being 50km/hr over the PSL = Fine starts at $2000, licence suspended for 7 days and vehicle impounded for 7 days.

[SmaartAasSaabr]

In a way it is good thay taste their own medecine

Nevertheless ....speed is becoming one of the worse crime
a human being can do ....next step is rehab camp like
in Mao Tse Sung China

What is even worse is that they impounded the OPP cruiser...

Take the taxpayer money to buy the car, take more taxpayer money to tow it away and store it on a land paid by taxpayer and then spend more taxpayer money to buy another cruiser so the other officer can do the duties les con-tribuables

It isn't rehab camp, it is "re-education"