Without descending further into an us v them debate...

I know a few regular police officers who have a massive disdain for traffic police. I've been lucky enough to encounter some good traffic police that were actually doing their job, rather than looking to defect for the sake of it. My 1st and only defect on my Sprinter was after it's engine conversion where the exhaust was too close to the ground. He could tell I wasn't out to make trouble, gave me 3 months to fix it and I did.

There was/is a member of these forums that used to work at Caboolture station, when I took it there to prove the defect was removed he and the senior DI had a great chat with me about cars and Toyota's.

At the end of the day we can't really win in a lot of these situations, no matter how well behaved we are.