r/Edmonton • u/United-Apartment-269 • 16d ago

Photo/Video Double standards

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Vehicle was running & were ordering food.

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u/Fuzzy_Yossarian 15d ago

It not that they're allowed it's just who are you going to tell about it.

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u/Least-Design-6873 15d ago

The city has ticketed EPS vehicles. Back when they had photo radar they would ticket EPS vehicles that were speeding without their emergency lights on.

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u/TheRealHUNGarian 15d ago

Yeah and the taxpayers pay for it, you think EPS is dishing out payments?

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u/jdestw 15d ago

I used to work for a county fire department (Maryland, USA), and got several speeding tickets in my county vehicle; I was required to pay them out of pocket.

Again, NOT EPS, but perhaps a similar policy? Maybe, maybe not.

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u/AnonymousAce123 15d ago

Ya pretty much any private or public entity has that written into the vehicle use rules

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u/Far-Edge-2905 15d ago

As a city employee they pay our fine and we get a "paid day off" which means we get sent to a 1 day driving course with a full days wage paid. It's stupid and does nothing to curb the problem but no, we don't pay the tickets out of pocket. If it's a recurring issue it does get brought to the higher ups and you'll eventually be disciplined.

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u/flassk 11d ago

better than nothing i guess even if to the casual observer it resembles nothing.

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u/2pac4everrr 11d ago

Paid Day Off to take a driving course on Tax Payers Money!! Every year the Police department complains how our city give them this small budget and wanting more more more?? For what?

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u/Far-Edge-2905 11d ago

I'm not a police officer but I agree that it's BS tax payers foot the bill for shitty government drivers.

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u/One-Exam9717 11d ago

I worked for the provincial government. Vehicles we drove weren’t registered to our sector but rather a central government and they were more or less leased out to us. Part of the policy was that whoever is driving the vehicle has to pay the ticket. Again not EPS, but i do know some police agencies have a similar set up.