This, Quite a selection of cars used in Hertforshire and Beds too, Once or twice the odd thing will give it away like a shark-fin aerial for factory radio, with an additional aerial near it. Lights are usually very well hidden and so many cars have dash-cams now , that isn't a give-away either anymore.
Unmarked 08 plate Golf GTI on M40?
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This, Quite a selection of cars used in Hertforshire and Beds too, Once or twice the odd thing will give it away like a shark-fin aerial for factory radio, with an additional aerial near it. Lights are usually very well hidden and so many cars have dash-cams now , that isn't a give-away either anymore.
You sir are quite obviously a genius!
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In Nottingham they have a 2 door mk6 red fiesta zetec, looks like a right **** but 2 kitted out officers sat in it patrolling the *prozzie area
In derby I have seen BMW 5 series / 3 series and a golf GTI
the golf came flying up my arse at a round about on a sunny day couldn't see the blue lights in the lower grill so I thought It was so moron driving like a plank so I took my jolly time Until I realised and felt like a right donky
I was surprised it had no sirens going?!?
In derby I have seen BMW 5 series / 3 series and a golf GTI
the golf came flying up my arse at a round about on a sunny day couldn't see the blue lights in the lower grill so I thought It was so moron driving like a plank so I took my jolly time Until I realised and felt like a right donky
I was surprised it had no sirens going?!?
Does any police force own a car that's more than 3 months old before replacing it with a new one?
Most of the vehicles in WMP are 12 plate or so, some older stuff in the fleet still being used (vans and the odd Peugeot 307 still around). There are some newer ones about but plenty of stuff that's absolutely hammered. This business about police cars being looked after well is a bit of a fallacy IME, only people I've seen taking proper pride in the cars is traffic, the regular response cars get a proper hard life, they get driven around with very little care really. Just a tool for the job.
Their primary purpose is to satisfy road safety pressure groups.
Around here they only keep a few of them active and the others switched off. I cant remember the reasoning for this but i think it was to do with funding.
Last unmarked car I saw was a 15 plate S3 in silver, on the M25. It had pulled someone over.
I doubt the Police would be running an 08 GTI, but I might be wrong...
That exact S3 pulled out in front of me on a two lane sliproad, just as I was booting it past traffic. "Ha, he reckons my Jag won't be able to keep up, I'll show him!" the idiot inside me thought, and followed him at quite a pace onto the M25, at which point the blue lights came on and I realised he wasn't just one of the Slough S3 massiv looking for a race.
Incredibly, he didn't pull me over, just waved at me to slow down and drove off.
Quite, it we as general public stopped giving them easy money for a little while, they'd soon stop being used, meaning that we'd be able to get away with spending 95% of our time being nice law abiding citizens, and the other 5% have a spot of fun.
The sad fact is that the public is made up of too many who are stupidly selfish (mainly Audi drivers, so clearly on a small %), and the the majority of the rest are lemmings, who allow themselves to be badgered into driving at 38mph, i.e. just fast enough for a ticket, but not genuinely fast enough to make a significant difference on how fast they really get to their destination.