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pdV6 said:
That's exactly the trouble with electronic policing, though... those little grey (yellow?) boxes can't stop you & ask searching questions!
You've absolutely correct....However the picture can be passed around and put onto boards in briefing rooms at police stations to burn the vehicle into people's memory...
Street
Who's to say it was even a police car ? I've driven unmarked cars flat out with blue blinky pot on the roof across several counties for hundreds of miles in the past, we had a policy of not stopping regardless as we often had things in the vehicle that were sensitive, we often didn't inform the plod we were doing the movements and I can honestly say if my boss at the time if he'd received a phone call from some traffic wooden top his reaction would have been "yes its one of my cars thats all your getting, its of no concern to you what they were doing goodbye" Admittedly this was in the early nineties and such thinks as "crown immunity" still existed but it still happens.
mel said:
Who's to say it was even a police car ? I've driven unmarked cars flat out with blue blinky pot on the roof across several counties for hundreds of miles in the past, we had a policy of not stopping regardless as we often had things in the vehicle that were sensitive, we often didn't inform the plod we were doing the movements and I can honestly say if my boss at the time if he'd received a phone call from some traffic wooden top his reaction would have been "yes its one of my cars thats all your getting, its of no concern to you what they were doing goodbye" Admittedly this was in the early nineties and such thinks as "crown immunity" still existed but it still happens.
I have visions of "The Professionals" right now
Oh yes I forgot to add at the time my own car was an Escort RS Turbo (yes I know but it was the early nineties, I was in my early twenties and it was quite flash at the time) anyway I permanantly had a blue blinky pot under the drivers seat, very very rarely had to use but it was there, It even got pulled out one night by a WPC (the light that is) when I got pulled over in Portsmouth town centre (the car had been parked round the back of a bank and looksuspicious) she looked like the cat that had got the cream, then had to eat humble pie and hand it back.
Alright I'll come clean, no such Bodie and Doyle shite, I worked for the RN bomb disposal unit based in Portsmouth, we had all sorts of weird jobs all over the South from trawlers dragging up WWII sea mines to checking Brighton/Bournmouth sea fronts when the political conferances were on. We were on call technically 24/7 but worked a "stay sober" first call rota.
One instance in particular that stands out for using the blue lights was when I had to go from Portsmouth to Brize Norton late on a Friday afternoon in the run up to the first Gulf War to collect a army officer and some kit to have a look at. Blue lights all the way there and all the way back, no questions asked.
Alright my brother had a one night stop over in transit so I went and got him to go out on the piss in Pompey for night, naughty I know but at the time no one gave a fvck.
One instance in particular that stands out for using the blue lights was when I had to go from Portsmouth to Brize Norton late on a Friday afternoon in the run up to the first Gulf War to collect a army officer and some kit to have a look at. Blue lights all the way there and all the way back, no questions asked.
Alright my brother had a one night stop over in transit so I went and got him to go out on the piss in Pompey for night, naughty I know but at the time no one gave a fvck.
It was in the Land Rovers, especially as we often had a trailer on the back and a Dingy on the roof The transits went like stink and all the vehicles we had were big engine petrol versions which was good, now days they have custom built DAF vans and Land Rovers straight out of the "special vehicles" division of Land Rover. As for cars when I was there we had a couple of escort estates and a few Cavaliers so it was pretty crappy, but again nowdays they've got themselves big engined Omegas with blue light behind the grills etc. Still I bet the rest of our toys were better than yours 
The transits went like stink and all the vehicles we had were big engine petrol versions which was good, now days they have custom built DAF vans and Land Rovers straight out of the "special vehicles" division of Land Rover. As for cars when I was there we had a couple of escort estates and a few Cavaliers so it was pretty crappy, but again nowdays they've got themselves big engined Omegas with blue light behind the grills etc. Still I bet the rest of our toys were better than yours mel said:
It was in the Land Rovers, especially as we often had a trailer on the back and a Dingy on the roof
Street
Streetcop said:
Black Volvo V70 Estate, X819GBB
I wonder what a TE check of that registration will pick up on PNC in a week's time and how many 'hits'...
Street
A mate of mine in the force did a PNC for me this morning, apparently the vehicle is privately owned and registered to a Mr Brunstrom from Wales.....
One of my mates who used be in charge of the RE EOD unit working out of Wimbish (up the M11 essex cambridge borders) tells a cracking story about when he got called out for all the mortars that were found in the fields around Heathrow years ago. It was decided by those that know these things that the quickest route from essex to heathrow with blue lights on was directly across central London and not round the M25, he was in his own car as the boys had all ready set out with vans and he needed to get there quickly, he had two motorcyle coppers and a car running in escort with him in his 205GTi and did trafalgar square flat out the wrong way with all the traffic being blocked for them, he says the drive there was more of a adrenalin rush than making the IED's safe.
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