Cop Cars - Unmarked - What & Where, as much detail on cars!!

[stevensdrs]

Also running a dark coloured Audi on the M80 with an English registration plate.

[MissChief]

Hmm, got passed by a white Range Rover Evoque earlier today with Blues in the front grille. Didn't notice any large amount of aerials etc either and only seemed to be one person in it. Fire Brigade vehicle?

[Martin_M]

MissChief said:

Hmm, got passed by a white Range Rover Evoque earlier today with Blues in the front grille. Didn't notice any large amount of aerials etc either and only seemed to be one person in it. Fire Brigade vehicle?

Doubt it but you never know. I've only encountered range rovers with the blues on the motorway - escorting someone to the airport. I'd guess it's special branch or something along those lines.

[Mr Trophy]

Martin_M said:

Doubt it but you never know. I've only encountered range rovers with the blues on the motorway - escorting someone to the airport. I'd guess it's special branch or something along those lines.

White discovery in Edinburgh that could pull you over if he wanted to... Unmarked

[Martin_M]

Interesting, never seen any unmarked 4x4s.

[Mr Trophy]

Martin_M said:

Interesting, never seen any unmarked 4x4s.

I wouldn't say it was unmarked. It belongs to someone's who's pretty high up in Police Scotland.

If needed, he will use his lights / sirens.

[Petrolize]

Do unmarked police cars tend to have English registrations nowadays? I had always assumed a further sign its an unmarked police car was the fact it would have a local registration for the area its in, e.g. SP or ST at the beginning of the registration for Tayside/Fife area, SV or SW Aberdeen, SY Inverness way etc.

[Prof Prolapse]

Petrolize said:

Do unmarked police cars tend to have English registrations nowadays? I had always assumed a further sign its an unmarked police car was the fact it would have a local registration for the area its in, e.g. SP or ST at the beginning of the registration for Tayside/Fife area, SV or SW Aberdeen, SY Inverness way etc.

I don't think it's a guarantee, but it's a good indicator. Local cars are frequently registered in local depots from new.

[Petrolize]

Prof Prolapse said:

I don't think it's a guarantee, but it's a good indicator. Local cars are frequently registered in local depots from new.

Thanks, it's strange then as a Volvo V70, which registration started AF14, followed for a while on the A9 (just after Perth) last week and got the feeling it might have been an un-marked car

[Prof Prolapse]

Well I know that Pethshire police cars are registered nearby. A friend of a friend owns the station.

[buachaille193]

Dramman said:

Glasgow South side unmarked blue Ford Mondeo SF58 EOT blue flashers front and rear Had driver stopped for something what ever it was driver was getting right good talking to

Saw this around 1745 today, M73 Southbound, South of Baillieston Interchange, having pulled someone.

[GCleary]

Petrolize said:

Prof Prolapse said:

I don't think it's a guarantee, but it's a good indicator. Local cars are frequently registered in local depots from new.

Thanks, it's strange then as a Volvo V70, which registration started AF14, followed for a while on the A9 (just after Perth) last week and got the feeling it might have been an un-marked car

There's a black A4 saloon that starts with MJ that has been in and around Glasgow for a while now, I can also remember seeing a Mercedes C Class with the light clusters on it with a non local reg on the M8.

So although the vast majority of Police cars will be locally registered, it's not a guaranteed indicator anymore.

[Craigie]

And the other side of this is that there now seems to be an absolute abundance of SF registration cars, of all varieties around now. And not police vehicles.

If I was a cynic I would say that there was most definite a previous "holding back" of SF plates for the services to use which is no longer needed with the change to Police Scotland.

[Prof Prolapse]

It's just where the car registered mate. It seems a bit a conspiracy theory in the least to say the police are intentionally reducing patterns.

[samvia]

It's a fair point though - in the 2 years I worked in my last place I didn't see a single new car registered with an SF plate, while the rest of the alphabet from A-J were all assigned frequently.

[Prof Prolapse]

I've seen lots of new SF plates on the M8 and around Edinburgh?

[HendryG]

Whilst I'd agree that 99% of cop cars were SF plated, there are/were quite a few that are SJ as well, it is a bit strange most were SF as usually plates are allocated randomly by the DVLA when the cars are registered new and you do hardly see any private cars on SF but I do wonder if SF is now specially kept for "unusual" or "special" vehicles, for example I work next to Allied Vehicles in Possilpark and they have hundreds of Peugeot Partners and Experts that either get converted to wheelchair accessible vehicles or hackney taxis and every one I see begins SF, also most of the bin lorries and buses round here begin SF too, occasionally you see an ordinary car on SF but its rare.

[CSK423]

Don't know if this really tells you much but what I took from it was procurement of vehicles is now centralised and they buy outwith the regions ie Audi's with non region plates.

It mentions Bmw ford and mitsy as partners and I havent seen a non SF plate on a one of these makes in the glasgow area it tends to be the mercs, audi and RRs that have these.


http://fleetworld.co.uk/news/2014/Mar/Union-blues-...

[Jader1973]

Petrolize said:

Do unmarked police cars tend to have English registrations nowadays?

I was told that many years ago Paisley CID got a fleet of Morris Marinas for undercover work.

All with sequential English number plates and aerials in places no other Marina had them.

Edited by Jader1973 on Saturday 17th May 10:46

[GilesGuthrie]

Volvo V70 SN59CFD is still operating. Just seen its officers finishing off a wee cuppa at Hillend, just off the Edinburgh city bypass

(edited for spelling)

Also, saw a black Audi A4 Avant on SN12GAU in Broomhouse (Edinburgh) today.

Edited by GilesGuthrie on Friday 30th May 13:34