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On the commute this morning,I spotted a 'Police' car the likes of which I haven't seen before:
57 plate BMW 5 series Touring, dark silver, but marked up with only little yellow stickers. Yellow rectangle on the rear bumper with the word "POLICE" written in dark blue or black, about 4" high maybe. Similar on the doors, yellow stripe along the bottom half of the door with "POLICE" wording again, and a tiny black battenberg border.
Little blue LED light panel on the top. Which he used when no one got out of his way.
What was that then? An unmarked car temporarily marked up? Or something else.
57 plate BMW 5 series Touring, dark silver, but marked up with only little yellow stickers. Yellow rectangle on the rear bumper with the word "POLICE" written in dark blue or black, about 4" high maybe. Similar on the doors, yellow stripe along the bottom half of the door with "POLICE" wording again, and a tiny black battenberg border.
Little blue LED light panel on the top. Which he used when no one got out of his way.
What was that then? An unmarked car temporarily marked up? Or something else.
thebluebus said:
Don't they train in regular marked cars then?
No. I often see two or three plain, oldish cars (Omega's) in convoy (often white and three up) making progress around the Chelmsford/Southend area some times with sirens and hidden blue's, other times just travelling at speed.Until a couple of years ago all of our training cars were plain coloured with magnetic stick on 'police' logos.
On the first 2 weeks of the standard driving course there is no need for blues and as we tend to spend a lot of time out of the county to get to the challenging roads plain cars are used.
The advanced course is exactly the same, we only use marked cars in the later response/pursuit stages of training.
The driving school actually now use hire cars from Hertz in the first stages as, in a case of total madness only the police can manage, they save £15000 a year by going there rather than using cars leased from a certain comapny we have a contract with...
No wonder the Met got rid of them!
On the first 2 weeks of the standard driving course there is no need for blues and as we tend to spend a lot of time out of the county to get to the challenging roads plain cars are used.
The advanced course is exactly the same, we only use marked cars in the later response/pursuit stages of training.
The driving school actually now use hire cars from Hertz in the first stages as, in a case of total madness only the police can manage, they save £15000 a year by going there rather than using cars leased from a certain comapny we have a contract with...
No wonder the Met got rid of them!
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