Ask a Highways England Traffic Officer anything
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Just been watching one of those police chase programmes
Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
Jimboka said:
Just been watching one of those police chase programmes
Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
...and that's got what to do with Highways England Traffic Officers? Wrong thread, perhaps?Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
Jimboka said:
Just been watching one of those police chase programmes
Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
“Tracking” isn’t it?Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
‘Gaynst my hooman rites innit occifer?
littleredrooster said:
Jimboka said:
Just been watching one of those police chase programmes
Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
...and that's got what to do with Highways England Traffic Officers? Wrong thread, perhaps?Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
I expect the highways officers find it funny when people won’t go above 70mph and do motorway lorry style overtakes.
Flumpo said:
littleredrooster said:
Jimboka said:
Just been watching one of those police chase programmes
Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
...and that's got what to do with Highways England Traffic Officers? Wrong thread, perhaps?Invariably police stops a scrote. Walks up to have a word. Scrote floors it. Sometimes lose them.
Why don’t the police have a magnetic tracker? Cheap as chips now.
Stick it to the scrote car when approaching or chuck it
Then follow at your leisure.
I expect the highways officers find it funny when people won’t go above 70mph and do motorway lorry style overtakes.
can/should heto be stopping cars with an obviously dangerous defect?
asking as i was overtaken by an car which's rear shock absorbers quite clearly had seen better day, was constantly bouncing and all over the lane.
Two heto cars were just ahead of me on the road and the car bounced past them too.
asking as i was overtaken by an car which's rear shock absorbers quite clearly had seen better day, was constantly bouncing and all over the lane.
Two heto cars were just ahead of me on the road and the car bounced past them too.
andburg said:
can/should heto be stopping cars with an obviously dangerous defect?
asking as i was overtaken by an car which's rear shock absorbers quite clearly had seen better day, was constantly bouncing and all over the lane.
Two heto cars were just ahead of me on the road and the car bounced past them too.
Probably not for the case you describe. asking as i was overtaken by an car which's rear shock absorbers quite clearly had seen better day, was constantly bouncing and all over the lane.
Two heto cars were just ahead of me on the road and the car bounced past them too.
If there's an immediate and obvious danger to the public, they can get the driver's attention and request them to stop on the hard shoulder, or off at a junction. I've stopped a lorry driver in the night who was obviously asleep at the wheel. My horn woke him with a jump!
andburg said:
can/should heto be stopping cars with an obviously dangerous defect?
asking as i was overtaken by an car which's rear shock absorbers quite clearly had seen better day, was constantly bouncing and all over the lane.
Two heto cars were just ahead of me on the road and the car bounced past them too.
I've performed a "safety intervention" on a vehicle with no rear lights at night, I informed my control of the location and why I was stopping the vehicle. Luckily on this occasion it was a blown fuse and the driver carried spares, he replaced the fuse, thanked me for letting him know and he continued his journey.asking as i was overtaken by an car which's rear shock absorbers quite clearly had seen better day, was constantly bouncing and all over the lane.
Two heto cars were just ahead of me on the road and the car bounced past them too.
BossHogg said:
I've performed a "safety intervention" on a vehicle with no rear lights at night, I informed my control of the location and why I was stopping the vehicle. Luckily on this occasion it was a blown fuse and the driver carried spares, he replaced the fuse, thanked me for letting him know and he continued his journey.
But how did he replace the 4 flat tyres from the stinger?
BossHogg said:
revvingit said:
Presumably the natural thing to do at this point would be single crew train these officers?
Training is ongoing, however, it's on hold at the moment due to everyone being out solo. How have I only just found this thread now? Quite interesting actually.
I laughed at the many comments about watching cars bunch up behind Traffic Officer vehicles because they are too stupid to realise it isn’t the police.
I like to take the opposite approach and “buzz the tower” as they say in Top Gun...
I laughed at the many comments about watching cars bunch up behind Traffic Officer vehicles because they are too stupid to realise it isn’t the police.
I like to take the opposite approach and “buzz the tower” as they say in Top Gun...
Sgt Bilko said:
I’m not convinced that having two cars rolling in tandem isn’t still single crewing. They’re working independently of each other until they exit the jeeps. I wonder if those who resisted single crewing training suddenly think it might be a good idea instead....
The reasoning being they still work together at incidents, whereas single crewed officers can do it all by themselves.Sgt Bilko said:
I’m not convinced that having two cars rolling in tandem isn’t still single crewing. They’re working independently of each other until they exit the jeeps. I wonder if those who resisted single crewing training suddenly think it might be a good idea instead....
I'd assume like most public and commercial organisations that are public facing in potentially volatile situations they'd wait to have two people present at an incident before intervening. So if one HATO car one up gets to an incident they'd wait for their one up colleague to arrive unless they were fully single crew trained. Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff