foxtrot5 said:
Speaking of fake plates. One night I had an officer request I run tags on a suspicious vehicle. The vehicle was parked on a side street in town that was normally VERY quiet, the officer lived on the street so he recognized that the vehicle did not belong. I ran the tags and was given a warning message that I had never seen before. About 20 seconds later the phone rings and it was an alphabet agency wanting to know who was running their unmarked unit's plates and why. Boy was that a fun night... not.
We had a problem for a while with people running code for no reason, and impersonators. It was like 2am one morning, and one of the deputies saw an Impala running very minimal R/B lighting with civi plates. He gets behind him, I run the plates, come back not on file with DOR and some other query I've never seen (we usually have a response from DOR, MULES, NCIS, TAS, DWITS and caution indicators/IFS status if applicable), and this was none of these. He makes the stop and the driver jumps out flashes a badge, screams highway patrol, and drives off. We have the plate, a good desription, etc., so the deputy said place a stop and hold on the vehicle. So I sent a message over the state NCIS for stop and hold of a newer Impala, white in color, MO plate of XXXXXX etc, etc. Not even 5 minutes later (at 2 something in the am), we get a phone call from the Troop HQ and they stated we will cancel that stop and hold and give the deputy the phone number to the LT or whoever. Ended up being some high ranking MSHP Detective or something and the LT chewed the deputies ass and said the next time they say highway patrol, that that should be good enough. Very strange night. Secrect squirrel shit was going down for sure!
On another note, I'm assuming the IFS thing is national. Does anyone else know what it is? Most people seem very uneducated about that and it's a great way to get a felony arrest. (IFS-International Firearms Status, will come up disqualified, cleared, etc.)
