nice one!! 
btw can people that talk on the phone get a fine if photographed by that submarine smart (the smart with the camera on top)?
Nice one DJ. Its a shame that when someone gets caught being a to$$a to such a degree they only get a £60 fine.
I see so many drivers in hugely expensive cars doing the same. You’d think that if they can afford to Hire Purchase an Aston Martin that a phone kit wouldn’t be beyond their reach?:ermm:
A public flogging is to good for them.
Good job there mate.
+1 for the stamping punishment. That’ll probably **** them off more than a £60 fine!
One of our local Traffic boys spent a day and a half on the Hanger Lane Gyratory and nicked something like 110 drivers on their mobiles.
I would of thought it be more, but I guess they missed a few while dealing with the ones they caught.
often wondered about the legality of seizeing the phone as evidence if they contest it , would prove phone was being used at that time and certainly inconvienience them for a while till they went to court …
+1
totally agree G!! that’s exactly what I think everytime I see someone in a flash car on the mobile!
its gets under my skin something chronic!
Nice one! I was seriously tempted to throw a womans mobile yesterday in the limehouse link, she pulled across me in stationary traffic whilst texting & didnt even look what she was doing - I shouted a few choice words at her instead 
*1 on the good work.
Surrey is endemic with driving phone users - but what I really don’t understand is that a Parrot voice activated hands free is only about £56 quid?
I mean these people are driving expensive cars, a handsfree probably less than a tank of fuel?
A quick bout of thread hijacking for a moment to congratulate some other officers doing a good job.
Left Borough yesterday evening and turned right heading back towards Waterloo. At the lights ahead I can see a big copper van FULL of big fellas in all the bullet-proof vest gear… so I very carefully filter past to the lights. All good, no hassles, good stuff.
As our lights go green, me and the moped there pull off and a HUGE volvo with an idiot at the wheel SHOOTS through the lights causing both of us to emergency brake and blast our horns. I’m thinking the usual unprintable string of asterisks and exclamation marks, and as I’m going his way and can now see him stuck behind the traffic at the next lights, I pull up next to his window, and casually ask him “Excuse me mate, don’t the red lights apply to you then?” and true to form I get the “Oh my your own business you sill little turd” response… which was ALL fine from me, cos reflected in the side of his crappy family tank, I could see the van FULL OF HEAVY DUTY ANGRY Officers, pulling up behind me… the passenger officer leans out, taps me on the shoulder and says, “S’alright sir, we’ll take it from here” and then utterly hair dryers the driver, before making him pull over.
The best bit was, the officer started with a very angry, almost shouted “What the hell do you think that was all about sir?” and the volvo drivers first response to was to wave his hand in dismissal and start doing his window up cos he thought it was still me giving him grief… when he actually clocked the Officer leant out of the window with a purple face and all the blokes in the back eyeballing him… his middle class, bravado turned intot he usual pathetic “Oh, er, um, ere, I’m sorry, er”
LAUGH… I nearly p!ssed myself…
Here’s to the MET! Good work lads.
Well done those coppers, hillarious 
great stuff DJ, phoen users also **** me off muchos…
lovely story…
i almost got a S320 merc in the left ear on parliment square on the way home… again bloody phone…
I have been thinking about this for a while, if I were to have a camera on my crash hat, and I were to get the number plate and car in the film with the person driving and passed it onto the police could they actually use it?
Yeah, good to hear you got one, there are so many morons out there. He wasn’t driving a BMW by any chance?
Probably not - YOU would be in the wrong for violating THEIR human rights !
:Whistling: Tried to do my bit this morning but it almost backfired!
Van meandering in front of me with driver on mobile. I spotted a police car just behind in the bus lane and thought I’d do my bit and let him know about the naughty mobile-using person ahead. Unfortunately I got a bit enthusiastic- frantically nodding towards the van in front and repeatedly raising my right hand up to my lid. The police car pulled up alongside me and the driver gave me what can only be described as a long hard look. Obviously thought I was a complete nutter! 
Technically you have the power (Sec 19 PACE) but advice from the PNLD is that seizing a phone for a summary only offence may be deemed contrary to Human Rights Act (Not proportionate to the offence, and possibly breaching right to privacy)…of course if you were dealing with something like an allegation of dangerous driving as opposed to a Con & Use Regs offence then you might be on a winner.
At what point do you return the phone to them? You’ve issued a FPN? The CJU traffic aren’t going to tell you if he’s paid… you’ll end up with another bit of property on your extensive list:)
The other issue is that you do not need to prove they were making or receiving a call or text to prove the offence. Using also includes playing games on it, turning it on and off, and possible even just holding it.