Am i going looney or did napier have its own cops!

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cantab1971, Oct 4, 2:28pm
help needed tosolve a "discussion" i'm having with someone if you're a more "mature" person and can remember. I seem to remember when i was a kid in Napier, 30 odd years ago, the city (or maybe region!) had its own traffic cops, different to the rest of the country. I have images of them in grey coloured holdens, not the usual black and white that the rest of the country's traffic cops drove back then. have i lost my marbles!
berg, Oct 4, 2:33pm
No, you are spot on. Before the MOT days councils ran local traffic enforcement.
saki, Oct 4, 2:53pm
Councils did have there own cops had a few run ins with the mt Albert lot in the 70s
cantab1971, Oct 4, 2:56pm
ah, thanks, so it wasn't just napier then.
saki, Oct 4, 2:58pm
AK harbour board even had them.
countrypete, Oct 4, 3:24pm
The napier cops had grey HQs back in early '70s.The rego numbers started with FY32xx.How's that for memory.Mind you, I don't recall what I had for breakfast!
kazbanz, Oct 4, 4:06pm
Ill second--third ahh whaddever that.
Auckland city council had its own traffic dept thaty were idiotic enough to run CBX650 honda's as patrol bikes. Funny as all heck if the cop forgot to turn all the lights off when he stopped because sure as eggs the battery would be flat and he';'d have to try to crash start the thing
A mate of mine was a bike patrol cop for tamiki council and conned them into buying VFR700's as patrol bikes--In their day a reasonably pukka sport bike.
oramac, Oct 4, 4:29pm
They would have been Police cars. The Police used grey from the mid sixties until about 1977.
marcos1, Oct 4, 4:30pm
They were pricks.

Had a few run ins myself.
skyehye, Oct 4, 4:36pm
Yea Invercargill had them too,(Cockcrofts Cowboys), some of them are still there under the Police banner now.
poppajn, Oct 4, 4:48pm
Dunedin too, had Mini Cooper S cars.
crzyhrse, Oct 4, 4:57pm
There's a word for that type of memory recall. alzheimers.
countrypete, Oct 4, 5:02pm
FY3217 was one.And I saw it around not too many years ago in Wellington, and recognised the rego.

Oh, and by the way, I had a two-course breakfast this morning - coffee followed by toothpaste!
cowboy110, Oct 4, 5:06pm
Lower Hutt CC had traffic cops as well.If they chased a car into town, they handed the chase over to (Wellingtons) MOT at Horokiwi.
modie61, Oct 4, 5:19pm
I remember Wellington Traffic cops had a MK 2 Escort sport,cream in colour.
countrypete, Oct 4, 5:23pm
I got pulled up on the Hutt Motorway on my bike, by a cop in a MkV Cortina.He was red in the face and yelled at me that he "had to 170kph to catch me".Funny thing was, he had turned off the Cortina, but it was so hot it kept running-on.Hard not to laugh (nowadays I am SO more responsible.)
gmphil, Oct 4, 5:31pm
yup me to when first started driven was long time b4 went back there lol
cocabowla, Oct 4, 6:20pm
i got to know all the boys from tamaki as they came in for gloves, helmets, tyres etc so didnt donate to their xmas funds. hehehe

the cbx was a nice bike to ride without all the police crap on it

as for the post about mt albert cops i think you're in the wrong decade maybe !,coz i moved up in 85 and they had widetrack bluebirds as patrol cars then ( and NO one got off )
neville48, Oct 4, 6:47pm
they were called municipal police and lots of citys in enzed had them.
supernova2, Oct 4, 6:50pm
Didnt those napier guys use vespas for their meter wardens!Or was it an enzetta!
mapman, Oct 4, 8:49pm
No there isn??
countrypete, Oct 5, 11:47am
I'm sure he knew that, but just forgot.
elect70, Oct 5, 12:51pm
Yep it was goodcops were locals & chances are you had a beer with him in pub on saturday .gotlet off a fewminor offencesby coupletraffic cops I knew .Nowadays there is no "discretion "
next-to-normal, Oct 5, 12:56pm
they use to wear jack boots too. which suited them
poppajn, Dec 11, 4:55pm
neville48 wrote:
they were called municipal police and lots of citys in enzed had them.[/quote
Invercargill traffic was run by the Invercargill City Council.