Police database out of date??

[Mortster]

The wife got pulled over in the Bug today on the A3, reason no tax, no mot and still Sorned.

This was all done yesterday, MOT, passed with flying colours ( put the cat back on ). Tax, done online, and you cant Tax it online unless its flagged as having a MOT.

Pulled over by a Plod on a bike, stating his computer was showing none of the above? How often do update their information, and where does it come from?

He was very cocky about it too, thinking he'd struck gold obviously. The wife told him other wise, and very miffed he went off to ring someone, came back 5 mins later, so its all ok, off you go. No apology, no explanation of why he's rolling around pulling people over with out of date info.

[555_Si]

Takes upto 48 hours for everything to update I think as have had the same problem before.

[Hongkongfooi]

Information comes from the dvla dvlc. It can take 24 hours at Least to hit the police system. He was only going on the information in front of him. Being cocky is another topic altogether.
He had every right and reason to pull you with what his system was saying though.

[Banstead Stig]

The cocky approach and lack of explanation would have got on my wick too.

IIt's fair enough doing your job; don't have to be a **** about it!

[Mortster]

In this day and age of superfast connections etc etc, why the hell are they 24hours behind then?

If the DVLA can be updated the moment a MOT is processed...what are they using? 38.8k modems still?

[andy-m]

when I bought my current scoob about 3yrs ago, the day I picked it up, I got pulled cuz the ANPR computer said I had no insurance, which was fine cuz I had added it to my current insurance for a week so I could test drive it and get it home if I liked it.

The plod told me it can take up to 2 weeks for their data to be updated.
He gave me his PC number and told me if I got pulled over again, to give them his details so he could confirm it was all cleared