Unmarked plod

[finefettlefilly]

Spotted 09 plate Silver/Grey Range Rover with blues flashing going towards the motorway passing the Ricoh arena with four plain clothed persons onboard.

[i remember]

Driving past a crash today on the b4455 fosse way there was a black r32 golf in undercover form!

[D4VE 3LL]

Silver and blue BMW 5 series unmarked cars in and around Selly Oak/Northfield. Could see the lights under the grill, oh, and your extra ariel gave it away to!

[2 Wycked]

Grey Mk5 Golf R32 spotted at Junction 10 of the M42 where it crosses the A5.

[NismoGT]

Dark Blue Ford Mondeo ST Hatch - Telford
Silver Ford Mondeo ST Hatch - Telford
Black Skoda Octavia VRS wagon - Telford
White Vauxhall Vectra V6 Saloon - Telford
Silver VW Golf R32 - Shrewsbury
Silver BMW 530i Wagon - Shrewsbury

[LongQ]

Are we getting the point where there are more unmarked than marked cars on the fleets?

I suppose there would be cost savings involved ... not other reasons .... should that be the case.

[Battenburg Bob]

LongQ said:

Are we getting the point where there are more unmarked than marked cars on the fleets?

Simple answer. No!

[LongQ]

Battenburg Bob said:

LongQ said:

Are we getting the point where there are more unmarked than marked cars on the fleets?

Simple answer. No!

OK.

Second question then.

Is the proportion of unmarked to marked vehicles, in the traffic departments specifically or the entire force as a whole, slowly changing?

I note that there seems to have been, for the last several years, a move towards silver coloured vehicles with far less 'stand out' visibility in the markings. I think the original reason given was to do with resale values at the end of the vehicle's active life. At first sight that seems to be at odds with the concept of promoting visibility for the purposes of safety at an incident or for deterence. What am I missing in my understanding here?

[Battenburg Bob]

Proportion is exactly the same. They are replaced (on our fleet) on a one to one basis.

Doesn't matter what colour the car is. It's almost entirely covered in highly reflective Battenburg markings.

[allaway]

Here Bob was it you who wrote off the unmarked Golf? Davidson

[Who me ?]

And for the benefit of anyone using the A444 aroundthe Bedworth area -there's roadworks adding traffic lights to Grif island and after the usual newspaper witch hunt about "speeding drivers endangering workers"( strange how the various SCP latch on to a good sourceof income ,in the name of "safety") the vans are almost permanently there .Favoutrite spots -on the grass verge under the bridge to the south of the island targetting north bound traffic ( i.e away from M6) and in the layby before the island (between the hospital island and the Grif ISLAND -this one not so nice as the road curves and with any extra vehicles parked makes the van hard to spot .

[Nathan 760T]

Driving through Oldbury this week I saw an unmarked 3 series in silver. Reg starts BD08 ...

[DrainTheSpuds]

Spotted in Worcester city centre - a silver Octavia vRS hatch VX58 JYJ.

[allaway]

Dark red Volvo saloon Brum city centre.

[davidspooner]

allaway said:

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Cheers! Hard one to see that one!

[liquidken]

Birmingham - Erdington/Sutton Coldfield.

Black E90 330 - BX08 and E60 530 also 08 reg.

[simon74000]

Alfreton / Chesterfield Black Focus C Max with two outstanding gentlemen cruising the A38. They were kind enough to relieve me of £60. The elder of the two was not a happy bunny when I asked him why he was still just a PC at his age (this was after he had done me). Bless 'em. Bet they were bullied at school !!

[Elroy Blue]

simon74000 said:

Alfreton / Chesterfield Black Focus C Max with two outstanding gentlemen cruising the A38. They were kind enough to relieve me of £60. The elder of the two was not a happy bunny when I asked him why he was still just a PC at his age (this was after he had done me). Bless 'em. Bet they were bullied at school !!

Ho Ho Ho! They'll really be losing sleep over that comment!

[Munter]

simon74000 said:

Bless 'em. Bet they were bullied at school !!

A)Some people don't half talk some st.

B)One assumes you were a bully. And therefore creating these policeman. Who just took £60 off you for not being able to read a speedo. So really you did yourself out of £60.

Congratulations.

[russ328]

Saw a silver 56 or 58 plate VW golf on the shrewsbury by-pass today, came up behind me with blue grill lights flashing, had me pretty worried for a minute. Fortunately he sailed on past when i pulled over!