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Street Cop Podcast

Taxi Plates / Livery Plates with Brad Gilmore

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this archive episode, Brad Gilmore alerts officers to keep an eye on taxi/livery plates as they may be disguised transporters of contraband. Recorded on 10/02/2019.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One Good morning.

0:13.0

quick tip of the day.

0:15.0

We've been finding that taxi cabs like the unmarked taxis similar to like Uber drivers but within New York taxi plates

0:25.8

have been disguising themselves as taxi drivers but traffic and contraband.

0:32.2

And one of the things that I've noticed in regards to these specific vehicles,

0:40.5

what do you notice when you see a taxi cab or even an Uber driver?

0:43.0

Where does the patron sit? sits in the back seat, right?

0:47.0

What does the front passenger seat look like?

0:50.0

Usually that front passenger seat is pushed all the way forward towards a dash and the seat back is bent forward, right, to provide the back seat patrons with a lot more likely.

1:03.0

So with these particular taxi plates with these vehicles that are used for

1:06.9

trafficking narcotics and that have taxi plates on them,

1:11.2

you'll notice that the front seat does not, is not

1:16.7

canted forward. It's not bent all the way forward. It's not pushed towards a

1:19.4

dash because that vehicle is not necessarily used as a means of transporting people, but as a means of transporting their cotton.

1:30.0

So if you don't know anybody that utilizes a New York taxi plate essentially pays like a fee weekly or monthly and that fee is probably around $800 a month just to

1:47.2

utilize that taxi plate.

1:51.5

So they'll use that and pay that fee as a disguise, right, to make a seem like they're transporting

1:59.0

or make a seem like they're transporting people. That gives them a legitimate reason as potentially why they're transporting people.

2:02.6

That gives them a legitimate reason as potentially why they're

2:06.3

at a certain location because they can use the excuse that I just

2:09.4

drop somebody off or I'm looking for somebody to pick somebody up, right?

2:13.8

And I don't necessarily know that law enforcement

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