Police Unnecessarily Speeding?

[Geertsen]

This isn’t an anti-police post but a genuine question.

I just watched a very drunk lady get arrested at a London train station and the police arrested her so that they could take custody of her very young daughter who was with her. The daughter was put in a police car and gently interrogated to find out who dad and grandparents were. The mother was put in the back of a van and the child remained at the train station in the police car.

The van left the train station forecourt and literally wheelspinned away, blue lights and siren going. Van swaying side to side around islands (I kid you not). You can see approximately 800m from the station and I watched as it raced all over the place, wrong side of the road, through red lights, everything. Easily doing 40mph+ in a central 20mph zone.

This is my question:

Why would they risk people’s lives speeding back to the station with someone they’ve already arrested and the child is just sat at the station (no rush to take her anywhere)? Surely just drive back normally?

[abzmike]

Perhaps the van had been urgently called somewhere else?

[Simpo Two]

You could report it and see what they say.

[Geertsen]

abzmike said:

Perhaps the van had been urgently called somewhere else?

With a drunk lady in the back?

[Sebring440]

Geertsen said:

This isn t an anti-police post but a genuine question.

I just watched a very drunk lady get arrested at a London train station and the police arrested her so that they could take custody of her very young daughter who was with her. The daughter was put in a police car and gently interrogated to find out who dad and grandparents were. The mother was put in the back of a van and the child remained at the train station in the police car.

The van left the train station forecourt and literally wheelspinned away, blue lights and siren going. Van swaying side to side around islands (I kid you not). You can see approximately 800m from the station and I watched as it raced all over the place, wrong side of the road, through red lights, everything. Easily doing 40mph+ in a central 20mph zone.

This is my question:

Why would they risk people s lives speeding back to the station with someone they ve already arrested and the child is just sat at the station (no rush to take her anywhere)? Surely just drive back normally?

How do you know all this detail?

[Geertsen]

Sebring440 said:

Geertsen said:

This isn t an anti-police post but a genuine question.

I just watched a very drunk lady get arrested at a London train station and the police arrested her so that they could take custody of her very young daughter who was with her. The daughter was put in a police car and gently interrogated to find out who dad and grandparents were. The mother was put in the back of a van and the child remained at the train station in the police car.

The van left the train station forecourt and literally wheelspinned away, blue lights and siren going. Van swaying side to side around islands (I kid you not). You can see approximately 800m from the station and I watched as it raced all over the place, wrong side of the road, through red lights, everything. Easily doing 40mph+ in a central 20mph zone.

This is my question:

Why would they risk people s lives speeding back to the station with someone they ve already arrested and the child is just sat at the station (no rush to take her anywhere)? Surely just drive back normally?

How do you know all this detail?

Because I was stood outside the train station about 2m away and I could hear every word the police were saying and everything the child was saying.

[Paul Dishman]

No need to worry, they’re all driving gods. Or so we’re told.

[CoolHands]

When I lived in North Finchley (London) the local lot drove like absolute pricks.

There’s also I think probably just 1 driver a local paramedic out of an ambulance station near me now who I usually see driving like a real nob!

[Geertsen]

CoolHands said:

When I lived in North Finchley (London) the local lot drove like absolute pricks.

There s also I think probably just 1 driver a local paramedic out of an ambulance station near me now who I usually see driving like a real nob!

I’m definitely trying to work out the logic or reason, especially as they had a drunk lady in the back (I imagine with no seat belt on).

[hidetheelephants]

Too many dibble think they're Jack Brabham despite having no relevant training, fairly unlikely a pursuit-trained driver will be driving a black maria so even if it were an emergency they should be obeying the speed limit.

[2020vision]

Geertsen said:

Because I was stood outside the train station about 2m away and I could hear every word the police were saying and everything the child was saying.

Why don't you post the auditor's video you made of the scene?

[BertBert]

hidetheelephants said:

Too many dibble think they're Jack Brabham despite having no relevant training, fairly unlikely a pursuit-trained driver will be driving a black maria so even if it were an emergency they should be obeying the speed limit.

Just curious how you know this?

[Doofus]

Maybe the drunk woman stole the van