What are the Police driving these days?

[kiethton]

Around our way, Bromley/Orpington we seem to have:

Traffic - Skoda octavia estate VRS/BMW 530d/Volvo V70 and then a few X5's
Panda - Hyundai i30, Astra's or ford focus estates, the Astra H's seem to all be replaced now, not seen one in a while!

[glasgowrob]

The more interesting cars they buy the better choice for people like me at bargain prices


Been Umming and aahing over this all week

http://www.xpcarsales.co.uk/octavia-vrs-20-tdi-12-...

Bargain for what it is

[simon1987]

i think i saw them on horses the other day. austerity!

[Z06George]

Around here (Reading) almost all the panda cars are either an Astra or V70. The only unmarked ones I've seen have been Insignias. However I do remember seeing an unmarked Audi A4 not far on the M4, but it's the only unmarked Audi I've seen.

[swisstoni]

Desks

[matchmaker]

ch108 said:

In the Stirling area there are a couple of unmarked Jaguar XFs. Used to be unmarked Octavias too. The marked cars seem to be mainly BMW estates or Volvos. Although i see a fully marked Mitsubishi Shogun most mornings. The police pool cars are usually silver Corsas or Focus where Police is written along the bottoms of the doors and the rear bumper, and have the Police Scotland crest on the bonnet. They are not equipped with blues and twos. This was Police Scotlands idea of making the police more visible here. The pool cars can be used by civilian police workers and there was an outcry from said workers that they could be targeted or be misidentified as police officers when driving these cars.

The way at least one of the silver Corsas in the Stirling area is regularly driven I assume that the driver is a civilian...

For example, tailgating me through a 20mph limit outside a school.

[kwk]

It was different in the past.

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Some of my old ones.

[kwk]

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[OMG_TURBOZ]

kwk said:

You can run, but you cant hide.

[Baryonyx]

ChemicalChaos said:

Aren't we missing the point here? Assuming you use a Bugatti Veyron as your getaway car, it still won't be able to outrun a police chopper unless you managed to hold vmax on a motorway (unlikely). And even then, it definitely won't be able to outrun the radio signals to the next units up the road....

Police helicopter coverage is massively reduced now. Not saying they couldn't still be used, but gone are the days of a helicopter always being in the force area. Now it could be three or four counties away - ie: in south Cleveland or North Yorkshire when it's needed immediately in Berwick.

[daydotz]

Are any forces using the new shape Octavia vrs yet ?

[Mafffew]

Seen a fair few Hyundais being used recently. The estate as well as the hatchbacks (I forget the model names).

[RobinBanks]

Quite a few Vauxhall Insignias and Jaguar XFs around here. Ford Focus too.

[chilistrucker]

Saw a gun metal grey Audi s3 at the BP garage in Egham on Thursday.

[carmadgaz]

We have a brand spanking new L200 double cab driving around Tenbury along with a Corsa and the rest seem to be X5s.

Do occasionally see unmarked A4s and 3-series belting through lights ablaze though.

[Chlorothalonil]

markmullen said:

The Humberside Lexus was for appraisal, don't think they ended buying it. They used to bring it to my office when they were out that way, a blast across the wolds and then a brew in our showroom looking at Porsches then head back.

Been around ages, think we had two.

[Axionknight]

Here in Aberdeen they seem to like their Ford Focus (Foci?), of both the current and previous generation.

[RobinBanks]

OMG_TURBOZ said:

You can run, but you cant hide.

But I'm not leaving less you come with me
We've had our problems but I'm on your side
You're all I need, please believe in me