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Originally Posted by jar_e
As someone who has probably made probably hundreds of those phone calls, there’s a litany of reasons to phone the registered owner. Driver not matching the registered owner is a very common one. CPS would only have access to the main registered owner (which lists physical description). Maybe they were the subject of a complaint from the public and we’re following up. I’ve warned registered owners over the phone a lot when it’s not worth the effort to pull them over, it’s only going to be educational, etc.
File a complaint through Calgary Police Professional Standards if you feel the demeanour wasn’t professional. Phoning a registered owner of a vehicle wouldn’t really be anything out of the ordinary though. |
Thanks for a view from the other side.
I actually considered filing a complaint and even printed off the foip form from the CPS website and wondered if I could get footage from the time I passed him, so it included the actual phone call to my wife then his interaction with his partner up to including when they pulled me over. Not to post it anywhere but to perhaps understand the logic of their choices. But in not sure if I would be given all of that footage anyway.
I also considered calling CPS and just seeing if I could get that officer to call me so I could explain that he caught my wife at a bad time and to justify her tone so he may consider that if and when he deals with someone else in a similar situation
But I'm probably not doing either.
For me the biggest thing here was the way he told my wife" fine if you want to do it that way" and then him telling me " I'm tempted to give you a ticket because of your wife". Maybe he was just having a really bad morning too but that whole thing doesn't sit well with me