Undercover Police Car

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The other day i was heading north on the A56 (between the M66 and M65) and was overtaken by a black LR Discovery (flashing blue lights behind the grill and also in the rear windscreen. What struck me as odd was that it was a Discovery 4 so it must be roughly 10 years old as a minimum.

is this normal? I assume the are "undercover" because they're likely to be involve din high speed pursuits. if so surely it would make sense to have something more modern and faster?

[P675]

I saw some weirder ones yesterday on M42. 2 vans, grey/silvery colour, way taller than your average van, one had a stack of ladders on the top. Both had blue lights going in the light clusters, aggressively driving in the middle of the 2 lanes to get through 50mph average enforced.

[Bradders278]

Could it have been military / special forces etc?

I remember Ultimate Force (early 2000's SAS drama) they had Disco's and van's etc ready to throw the tools in.

Scott.

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Bradders278 said:

Could it have been military / special forces etc?

I remember Ultimate Force (early 2000's SAS drama) they had Disco's and van's etc ready to throw the tools in.

Scott.

A friend often has "company cars" including Discovery 4's, X5's etc. that have concealed blue lights. He's in the special forces.

[TheDrownedApe]

In the EOD world we use off road vehicles with blue lights - usually Amoraks or Superbs but it could be a command car (I'm a little out of date).

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Interesting - could have been I suppose.

Every day's a school day

[Uppy89]

Members of both the fire and ambulance service have personal cars with blue light fits too.

[Greendubber]

P675 said:

I saw some weirder ones yesterday on M42. 2 vans, grey/silvery colour, way taller than your average van, one had a stack of ladders on the top. Both had blue lights going in the light clusters, aggressively driving in the middle of the 2 lanes to get through 50mph average enforced.

That would have been Counter Terrorism Specialist Firearms Officers.

[Pica-Pica]

Diplomat, ministerial car?

[bobtail4x4]

Walt?

[Wafu7]

It was probably Jack Bauer. Doubtless having the longest day of his life.

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Wafu7 said:

It was probably Jack Bauer. Doubtless having the longest day of his life.

If he’d chosen a Discovery then a big chunk of the “24 hours” would involve the AA

[RammyMP]

A couple of years ago there was a guy in the area who had a white transit van with blue lights on it. He wasn’t the police or anything just a local not right who’d put the blue lights on to get through traffic. He might have upgraded to a disco!?!