German Police can't handle their Cars

[telecat]

From Teletext's Strange But True page 326.

"German Police In Berlin Have wiped out at least 22 Leased BMW 5 series estates Since December 2002. The inept cops have now been downgraded to VW Tourans."

OOOOPPSSSS, looks like the image of the German Police and their driving prowess could do with a little polishing!!

[dilbert]

Don't the German police train on those really expensive driving simulators, that the UK police are looking at buying?

I was never sure that those simulators actually made a fair representation of the driving environment anyhow. It's a bit different with flight simulators, but could it be that the simulators aren't helping keep the standards up?

[mr clive]

The circumstances of the writings off should be looked at really If most of those were single vehicle accidents due to poor car control then fair enough, give them cheap cars and say the simulators are crap. However if most were due to pursit driving and suspects trying to play bit of destruction derby in an attempt to avoid capture then we shouldnt be so hasty.

As a policeman friend mentioned a while ago, his force looses about a car a month on average due to silly beggers by other drivers (one suspect he spoke of wrote off 4 police cars trying to avoid capture)

[Pickled Piper]

mr clive said:

The circumstances of the writings off should be looked at really If most of those were single vehicle accidents due to poor car control then fair enough, give them cheap cars and say the simulators are crap. However if most were due to pursit driving and suspects trying to play bit of destruction derby in an attempt to avoid capture then we shouldnt be so hasty. As a policeman friend mentioned a while ago, his force looses about a car a month on average due to silly beggers by other drivers (one suspect he spoke of wrote off 4 police cars trying to avoid capture)

Stop being so sensible. We're having a pop at the Germans. It's a national sport. If you can't get the hang of it go and play something else

pp

[IaHa]

telecat said:

From Teletext's Strange But True page 326. "German Police In Berlin Have wiped out at least 22 Leased BMW 5 series estates Since December 2002. The inept cops have now been downgraded to VW Tourans." OOOOPPSSSS, looks like the image of the German Police and their driving prowess could do with a little polishing!!

Oi! Won't hear a word against Tourans!

Regarding losing police vehicles, I've just finished a shift where we got a shout from Lancs about a stolen HGV travelling north. We were tasked to go to a motorway 'stinger' site to attempt to sting the vehicle when it passed. While waiting we were informed that the witnessed behaviour of the driver was such that he would take out any patrol cars in his way. So we were huddled behind a motorway bridge triple stanchion, waiting for this 44 ton weapon to make mincemeat of our stationary Galaxy - I've grown quite fond of that motor over the last couple of years, and my bait box was in it!

Fortunately it turned south two junctions below us and eventually gave up.

[streaky]

However, it does seem as though they can handle (or, rather let Debs handle) their weapons - Streaky

[W333]

IaHa said:

Regarding losing police vehicles, I've just finished a shift where we got a shout from Lancs about a stolen HGV travelling north. We were tasked to go to a motorway 'stinger' site to attempt to sting the vehicle when it passed. While waiting we were informed that the witnessed behaviour of the driver was such that he would take out any patrol cars in his way. So we were huddled behind a motorway bridge triple stanchion, waiting for this 44 ton weapon to make mincemeat of our stationary Galaxy - I've grown quite fond of that motor over the last couple of years, and my bait box was in it! Fortunately it turned south two junctions below us and eventually gave up.

Don't envy you in this case... that must have been quite a scary thing to wait for. Guess you can't really run away quickly in an HGV, but once you've got going its quite difficult to stop.