"Ghost" MNRF CO truck

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Originally Posted by Fishy Wishy

What is the point/purpose of the CO having a "ghost" truck?

I think the OPP driving in unmarked ghost cars is counter to road safety...let alone as some have suggested lessening road safety as a driver has no way to tell if the car pulling them over is a legit Law Enforcement vehicle.

But what could possibly be the purpose of the CO requiring a ghost truck?

Is law enforcement that bad that it must be hidden?

FW

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The term the CO's use is "STEALTH" vehicle. THis is the vehicle that is black that has Black Lettering. Not for under cover work.

The OP seems like a little bit of a trolling expedition to me:)

The more out there the better IMO . I don't care if they are invisible.

I have no issue with unmarked vehicles and stealth work. If they are digging up information about illegal activity going on within a location by undercover work and catching poachers then that's one up for the various game and fish species we all enjoy hunting each year.

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Originally Posted by Fishy Wishy

No one is making a compelling argument why law enforcement has to sink to sneaking around. Seems a little dishonest no?

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Goes along the lines Takes a thief to catch a thief. As in under cover cops in drug and gang enforcement its a tool to uncover illegal activities. You may have not seem a CO but that plain clothes fisherman eyeing you may have been one. Another saying A measure of a man is what he does when no one is looking. Hence illegal activities occur even by otherwise honest people when no ones looking.

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Originally Posted by Fishy Wishy

Hiding in unmarked vehicles does nothing to reduce offences...just to increase revenues.

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This is the problem with some people. Lack of person responsibility. That fact that they got penalized wasn't an unmarked car it was you did something illegal. Its not a cash grab...If you don't want to pay don't do the crime in the first place.

A little off topic here but MNRF, is forestry not a natural resource? Why do they need to mention it?

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Originally Posted by skeeter1

A little off topic here but MNRF, is forestry not a natural resource? Why do they need to mention it?

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Everyone likes more letters after their name :) wonder how much that "rebrand" cost us :)

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Originally Posted by TurkeyRookie

Everyone likes more letters after their name :) wonder how much that "rebrand" cost us :)

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$28.00 for a turkey tag:):)

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

Goes along the lines Takes a thief to catch a thief. As in under cover cops in drug and gang enforcement its a tool to uncover illegal activities. You may have not seem a CO but that plain clothes fisherman eyeing you may have been one. Another saying A measure of a man is what he does when no one is looking. Hence illegal activities occur even by otherwise honest people when no ones looking.

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I watched an undercover CO on the saugeen last fall. He really didn't know how to steelhead but the three clowns stuffing fish in the bush behind them sure did. Unfortunately a CO up on the hill had parked a "marked" unit and when some of the poachers buddies left the river a text message quickly flew back to the culprits ............ a lot of nice rainbows rotted in the bush that day. So that's a situation where the marked unit wasn't a good idea at all. Nice to see a plainclothes CO though!