Posted: 5/17/2006 10:05:55 AM EDT
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Maybe yall can help me with this. I was in Mobile, Alabama. I was 7mph over the speed limit; a police officer pulls me over. Asks for my license, asks if I was speeding. I say yes, I was. He goes to the car, comes back, hands me my license, tells me to drive slower, walks back to his vehicle, and drives off. I've never gotten a ticket before, so... Did I just get a reprimand, or what? I'm honestly confused. |
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Sounds like you were honest and polite so you got a verbal warning. No paper, no foul. NorCal ETA: Here, when an officer initiates a vehicle stop, the plate with all your info is logged into the dispatch computer and usually logged into the officer's shift log regardless of outcome (ticket or not). This is for LE record keeping and does not affect the driver in any way (insurance, fines, etc) if a ticket is not issued. It's like visiting a website. If you visit a site and do not buy anything, your visit is logged but just for statistcal or recordkeeping purposes, not for any follow up. Unless I remember I have warned you personally, there is no way another officer would know this. I have heard of other states issuing "written warnings" which aren't cites per se, but are recorded and attached to your record IIRC. No paper, no problem is a general rule of thumb here, but YMMV by state. |
| I'm not totally sure about this cause I am just an auxilary and don't do traffic stops, but when an officer pulls someone over and they seem familiar, they can ask the dispatcher what they have in the system in terms of prior dealings with the car or driver or residence. But like norcal said, I don't think it goes into the driving records here. Not sure though. |
Here after an officer has concluded the traffic stop he or she will state whether a citation or warning has been issued, and it's logged I'm guessing. It's pretty neat, because now they can keep track of how many traffic stops each officer is making and it's included in the monthly report. |
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Called officer discretion. He chose not to write you. With all of the screams of foul play etc. It's getting harder to not write someone who you have stoped. I'm on a trend of late. If I stop someone i write them. I've got buddies who got complaints that were totally unfounded after they cut someone some slack. You stoped me and you didn't write me so you must have stoped me because of some other reason. (It must have been a "bad stop") |
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No cite, no foul as far DMV is concerned in CA - just as NorCal stated. I can/have done FI's (field interview) on drivers that I did not issue a citation in order to get the vehicle &/or driver into our computer data base as a record of the warning. Some of the dispatchers automatically put the vehicle/driver into our CAD system, some don't. If the vehicle/driver is contacted again then dispatch should notify the officer of the previous warning. Brian |