M1 unmarked plod alert
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Just come up the M1 from East Midlands Airport.
There appears to be an unmarked plod in an old black Honda Accord prowling around junctions 25 and 26.
He pulled a Lexus.
Accord had alternate flashing red tail lights and blue strobes in the grille and on the dash.
Does anyone know if he's real?
His pulling technique was more than a little dodgy. Behind the Lexus, he was very close and they both cut across from lane 2 or 3 to get to the hard shoulder. As he passed, the combination of his flashing back lights, stop lights and left indicator, right up the chuff of the Lexus, had us all momentarily confused.
Shortly before this, I passed him parked up on the hard shoulder with those back lights flashing, and he appeared to be looking at a map.
Anybody know which force polices that neck of the woods? He was just on the Leicestershire side of the Nottinghamshire border.
>> Edited by mybrainhurts on Sunday 2nd October 11:00
There appears to be an unmarked plod in an old black Honda Accord prowling around junctions 25 and 26.
He pulled a Lexus.
Accord had alternate flashing red tail lights and blue strobes in the grille and on the dash.
Does anyone know if he's real?
His pulling technique was more than a little dodgy. Behind the Lexus, he was very close and they both cut across from lane 2 or 3 to get to the hard shoulder. As he passed, the combination of his flashing back lights, stop lights and left indicator, right up the chuff of the Lexus, had us all momentarily confused.
Shortly before this, I passed him parked up on the hard shoulder with those back lights flashing, and he appeared to be looking at a map.
Anybody know which force polices that neck of the woods? He was just on the Leicestershire side of the Nottinghamshire border.
>> Edited by mybrainhurts on Sunday 2nd October 11:00
Balmoral Green said:
Going back a few years, there was an un-marked red 1984 'A' registration Citroen BX on patrol, it was at least ten or twelve years old at the time. As stealth as it gets.
Not quite.... S Yorks plod used to have a 16/17 yr old ex WD Standard Vanguard S4 in khaki.......
mybrainhurts said:
He's straddling counties, then....
Is that usual....?
It can be, the same police force (West Mercia i think it's officially know as, anyway the Staffordshire area ones) cover the M6 from Knutsford Services in mid-Cheshire. I think it's know unknown for police forces to break the motorways up into more sensible (for them) chunks that ignore county boundaries.
Regards
Iain
chassis 33 said:
He's straddling counties, then....
Is that usual....?
It can be, the same police force (West Mercia i think it's officially know as, anyway the Staffordshire area ones) cover the M6 from Knutsford Services in mid-Cheshire. I think it's know unknown for police forces to break the motorways up into more sensible (for them) chunks that ignore county boundaries.
Regards
Iain
Bit off plot there chassis 33.
West Mercia covers local authority areas Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Worcestershire. I would say Knutsford is Cheshire area.
Motorways are indeed subject to a bit of interpretation, and of course in the West Midlands even more so with Central Motorway Patrol Group.
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