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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows about this.
I was driving the other day and a police patrol car shot passed me in the outside lane of a 3 lane carriage way, so a 70mph speed limit.

The Marked patrol car, had no lights flashing, and no siren on, and I was travelling at 70mph. So the car had to be traveling faster than the speed limit to go passed me.

I am guessing that they would have been travelling and 80 or 90mph judging by the way he disappeared into the distance.

I have dashcam footage, where my speed was recorded at 70mph. Do you think the police were breaking their own laws, and if so, do you think I should do anything about it?
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Chriissib
 
No, the chips were getting cold back at the station.

I am sure that they were not just messing about, speed training or a call out where blues and twos were not required. They will have protocols and if not driving in a dangerous manner are likely to be in the right of it.
 
chrissi-b said:
do you think I should do anything about it?
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Please submit your footage here and we will investigate this matter for you.
www.suffolk.police.uk

9. Dashboard camera report form

Operation Snap is a secure online facility which allows submissions of video and photographic evidence relating to driving incidents that members of the public have witnessed.
www.suffolk.police.uk www.suffolk.police.uk

Kind regards
Suffolk Constabulary
 
Contrary to popular belief, the police don't need to have 'blues and twos' going in order to exceed the speed limit or go through red lights etc. etc.
 
Services currently exempt from speed limits include police, the UK Fire Service, ambulance services and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (shortly to be replaced by the National Crime Agency).
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chrissi-b said:
this car wasn't chasing anything...the road was clear
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The police do training for high speed driving and in doing so they probably noted your car, it's positioning on the road and any likely erratic behaviour by you, the driver. Then proceeded to pass in a safe controlled manner albeit above the mandatory speed limit for the road in question.
 
~Mike~ said:
Please submit your footage here and we will investigate this matter for you.
www.suffolk.police.uk

9. Dashboard camera report form

Operation Snap is a secure online facility which allows submissions of video and photographic evidence relating to driving incidents that members of the public have witnessed.
www.suffolk.police.uk www.suffolk.police.uk

Kind regards
Suffolk Constabulary
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OK, I have the footage, but there is too much personal information requested on the reports page, and I don't particularly want a target on my back from the police.
So unfortunately I think against my better judgement, I think I will can it.

but thanks for the information.
 
Correct me if i am wrong but police are allowed to speed for your usual reasons like answer to an emergency, blue lights and sirens are only needed to alert their presence. They are not necessary needed to be used in an emergency or when speeding.

If the roads were clear, then they are on the correct lane, then it would seem not deemed necessary to use the sirens and lights?
 
chrissi-b said:
OK, I have the footage, but there is too much personal information requested on the reports page, and I don't particularly want a target on my back from the police.
So unfortunately I think against my better judgement, I think I will can it.

but thanks for the information.
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are you ok?
 
chrissi-b said:
OK, I have the footage, but there is too much personal information requested on the reports page, and I don't particularly want a target on my back from the police.
So unfortunately I think against my better judgement, I think I will can it.
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Why would you even consider reporting it, the police are exempt from speed limits.

You'd just make yourself look like an idiot.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Correct me if i am wrong but police are allowed to speed for your usual reasons like answer to an emergency, blue lights and sirens are only needed to alert their presence. They are not necessary needed to be used in an emergency or when speeding.

If the roads were clear, then they are on the correct lane, then it would seem not deemed necessary to use the sirens and lights?
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Ok that may be true, but if there wasn't an emergency, then the driver of the police car should not have been breaking the speed limit. I guess I will never know. But I can guarantee, if the footage I have, was from the inside of a police patrol car, and I had been the car overtaking, I think they would have pulled me over, for breaking the speed limit, and hence breaking the law.
 
chrissi-b said:
Ok that may be true, but if there wasn't an emergency, then the driver of the police car should not have been breaking the speed limit.
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Which bit of that don't you understand?
 
chrissi-b said:
Ok that may be true, but if there wasn't an emergency, then the driver of the police car should not have been breaking the speed limit. I guess I will never know. But I can guarantee, if the footage I have, was from the inside of a police patrol car, and I had been the car overtaking, I think they would have pulled me over, for breaking the speed limit, and hence breaking the law.
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How do you know it's not an emergency? There isn't an emergency from your viewing distance, but it doesn't mean there isn't one 5 miles down the road? Can you see 5 miles down the road?

Also, they are allowed to and they do, train on public roads.
 
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