Police T-pack on M27 this morning
Discussion
At about 11:30 this morning I was heading east on M27 by junction 1 as westbound 4 police Volvo estate cars were boxing in a grey Skoda Octavia trying to bring it to a halt.
Looked like the skoda was swerving around trying to punch its way out but i didn't quite see it come to a conclusion (it was tempting to swerve onto the hard shoulder and stop but i restrained myself).
Another police volvo was doing a rolling road black about a mile further back
Anyone know any more on this?
Will have to keep an eye out on "Road Wars" in a few months time.
Looked like the skoda was swerving around trying to punch its way out but i didn't quite see it come to a conclusion (it was tempting to swerve onto the hard shoulder and stop but i restrained myself).
Another police volvo was doing a rolling road black about a mile further back
Anyone know any more on this?
Will have to keep an eye out on "Road Wars" in a few months time.
It was definitly a training exercise. All of the advanced drivers in Hampshire Police are currently being trained to carry out T-pac. The force has not had it until recently so there are lots of officers to train. You will probably see this quite often in the next few months whilst the main bulk are trained.
TJR
TJR
V8 BYF said:
I saw the end of this when they had stopped the Skoda in the outside lane. The driver got out and tried to do a runner and was tackled by 2 officers. The Skoda does suggest an exercise but not the chap trying to do a runner.
The whole point of the training excercise is to recreate a scenario - if the "suspect" would run, the officer roleplaying the suspect would run. They do the same in training excercises for the MDP for sms and the like too. It wouldn't be a very realistic training excercise if they guy just gave up would it 
I cant imagine for training someone would run from a stopped car...that would be silly. Although just for a laugh, I would.
You are holding up the entire carraigeway for the purpose of training, that type of thing can be done on a runway or similar. The tactics are practiced for the purpose of vehicle positioning, not fitness. It isnt hard to dump a police car and leg it. Unless you're fat.
You are holding up the entire carraigeway for the purpose of training, that type of thing can be done on a runway or similar. The tactics are practiced for the purpose of vehicle positioning, not fitness. It isnt hard to dump a police car and leg it. Unless you're fat.
mehball said:
If it was an VRS then it would easily outrun their motorway cars so it must have been a practise.
it might have been one of the first Octavia VR's - but it's not exactly a rocket ship is it! - especially with at least 2 or 3 burly blokes inside which this one did. I'm sure a couple of volvo T5's could more than keep pace!!!a 335d - yeah now you're talking.
Edited by rswheelnut on Thursday 14th May 18:02
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