Facebook group in bid to uncover covert police cars
Photos and secret locations of covert police cars are being posted online by hundreds of Queensland drivers fed up with speeding fines.
But police have revealed the fleet of undercover cars has been replaced and expanded to crack-down on the state's most dangerous drivers.
Police are going to great lengths to keep their undercover cars under the radar.
Cars with p-plates, personalised plates, a Hummer and modified utes with bumper stickers that don't look like police vehicles until their lights begin flashing.
Acting Insp Sean O'Neill from State Traffic Operations said the goal was to make Australia's roads safe.
"The ultimate goal is to make Queensland roads the safest in Australia," Acting Insp O'Neill said.
The covert cars have been photographed by drivers across the state and posted on facebook, along with hundreds of secret locations.
Almost 10,000 drivers use the site.
Police say they won't shut it down because there's no need to.
"There's probably a large proportion that are no longer on the road and some of those sites, the vehicles I've seen aren't even part of the Queensland police fleet," he said.
"We'll use the vehicles on major highways. We'll use them to target hoons and high speeds."
According to police, the cars are rotated between regions with their number plates changed and they're sold and replaced before they can be recognised.
The first covert cars were introduced on Queensland roads two years ago, now there are more than 16 of them.
Police are using intelligence information to target repeat offenders, and those most likely to put other drivers in danger.
And drivers using mobile phones who won't know they're being watched and recorded on camera until it's too late.
