What are the Police driving these days?
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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.
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.
Bit off topic, but do you know a chap called "Nab" who works at a dealership in Hull?Around my way they use Astras and Insignia estates mostly. There are a few Audi A6 estates as well, but they only seem to be half-marked rather than having the full Battenberg. I've also seen a liveried up VW Transporter. I bet that's different in other parts of the country too, but it seems that the days of 'silver Vauxhall Vectras are always police' are gone.
Come to think of it, I've not seen one of the new-shape Ford Mondeos used as a police car at all. The older models were a common enough police car too, like the Vectra. How odd.
Come to think of it, I've not seen one of the new-shape Ford Mondeos used as a police car at all. The older models were a common enough police car too, like the Vectra. How odd.
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....
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