What's the oldest police car you've seen lately?

[valiant]

Torcars said:

The Met had an ancient Transit incident unit thing in the 1990s.

It had a kind of cockpit thing on the roof, I guess for crowd observation or something.

It was a very old 1970s MK1

one of these?

Remember seeing them around when I was a kid. This was Hackney in the late seventies so 'crowd control' was a regular weekend event back then.

Edited by valiant on Saturday 24th February 22:07

[Jim AK]

33q said:

According to Classic Car Weekly it's a 29 year old Land Rover operated by Police Scotland

Apparently Scottish Lib Dems made a Freedom of Information request

Ref 10 January edition

fks sake!

Don`t they have anything more important to worry about?

[Torcars]

valiant said:

one of these?

Remember seeing them around when I was a kid. This was Hackney in the late seventies so 'crowd control' was a regular weekend event back then.

Edited by valiant on Saturday 24th February 22:07

That's exactly it!

I guess it would be expensive to buy and probably did minuscule miles - driving from a police garage to footy matches or protests.

So, no reason why you'd not get 20-30 years service out of it.

[mcg_]

55 plate Mondeo the other day, very odd.

Not sure why it would still be going. Must have done well over 200k surely, why would they be keeping it on the road?

[CaptainMorgan]

We have a BTP Focus that only seems to travel between the two local train stations but its a good ten years old.