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Unmarked Police Cars

DaveK said:
I am merely showing our car park attendant what can be gleaned from a picture posted on a website. I have deliberately held back the unscrambled reg of the Golf
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I only come on here now for entertainment, its hands down the easiest place I have found to read a good argument! I can usualy tell the threads that are going to go the wrong way from the title, but this one is much better than even I expected!
 
nickcc101 said:
Old blue v6 mondeo used in Torbay. Aerials on roof and blue lights behind front grille, goes like whatsit of a shovel.
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Poor man county.

I thought I read in the paper today, the police was offered a Golf car to do the patrol around an area I can't remember precisly where, unless petrol is also provided.;)
 
Dragon said:
I thought I read in the paper today, the police was offered a Golf car to do the patrol around an area I can't remember precisly where, unless petrol is also provided.;)
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In the story I read today it was North Yorkshire and a Vauxhall Corsa! The car had been donated by a local dealership, and the police asked the parish councils to donate money to them for petrol.
 
BTB 500 said:
In the story I read today it was North Yorkshire and a Vauxhall Corsa! The car had been donated by a local dealership, and the police asked the parish councils to donate money to them for petrol.
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Another poor man county good for speeders in that area.
 
Howard said:
What ? Devon ? :eek:
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If I am offer any IT contracts I will not venture beyond Basingstoke and Coventry. The rates are low and they are messing about. Not worth travelling there away from home during the week.:rolleyes:
 
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Dragon said:
Poor man county.

I thought I read in the paper today, the police was offered a Golf car to do the patrol around an area I can't remember precisly where, unless petrol is also provided.;)
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If you added a 'T' then it would solve the problem of lack of fuel.

Golf car'T'

Metropolitan Police = Best police force money can buy! :)

John
 
television said:
They are not speed cameras on the tripod they are numberplate recognition cameras that take and check the car details
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The camera had a black square section either side about 9 inches square with the PC sitting behind holding two handles. All the number plate recognition cameras i have seen have been sitting at the roadside unmanned with the van parked alongside. On another note are the speed cameras at the end of the Tamar bridge/Saltash tunnel now used for issuing fines or just for checking speeds ?
 
nickcc101 said:
The camera had a black square section either side about 9 inches square with the PC sitting behind holding two handles. All the number plate recognition cameras i have seen have been sitting at the roadside unmanned with the van parked alongside. On another note are the speed cameras at the end of the Tamar bridge/Saltash tunnel now used for issuing fines or just for checking speeds ?
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As far as I am aware these were sited by the Home Office a number of years ago for test and evaluation purposes (SPECS) I have no idea if they have now been taken over by the local authority.

The ANPR equipment your describing was probably connected to the working base inside the van.

John
 
Dragon said:
If I am offer any IT contracts I will not venture beyond Basingstoke and Coventry. The rates are low and they are messing about. Not worth travelling there away from home during the week.:rolleyes:
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It must be you, Dragon.

I have worked with a client in Devon off and on for a while, and it's really quite lucrative, although not IT.

Mind you, I set my daily rate, and I am worth it.

Have you considered that rather than anything beyond Basingstoke or Coventry being "poor man county", that it's possible the clients can find better contractors than you?

:)
 
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Yeah, I have been discriminated. They don't like me. Nothing much I can do, can I? I even been to Land End trying to help them on smart cards. I drove all night, stayed overnight at Plymouth and arrived there at 12 noon just for half an hour interview, with no appreciation whatsoever. When I looked back on my way back there are nothing there other than a holiday resort people go there for the summer. No wonder there are no motorways there.:eek:

Not in a million years I will go back there again to help anyone there on IT.:rolleyes:
 
I saw a couple of really impressive unmarked cars at about 3:30 today! Both black, travelling in convoy with motorbike outriders down Fleet Street and into the Strand, then left down a side street towards the Embankment. I'd have said they were going to the Savoy except that's closed for refurbishment AFAIK.

One was a LWB Audi A8 and the other was a Jag (or Daimler?). They had blue strobes hidden in the radiator grilles, in the side indicator repeaters, and in the reversing lights on the rear clusters! No sirens or anything but both cars and the bikes (4 I think) all had the blue lights going and were making "brisk progress".

The officers on the bikes had full face helmets with the visors up and whistles in the mouths ... they were using them to clear pedestrians etc. out of the way.
 
johnhill79 said:
There is an unmarked car you would not expect roaming around Coventry
A Citreon C1/Peugeot 107 type car, blue with white go faster stripes running up it, I have seen it twice, once when it pulled me over and sped past on the A444 near gallagher retail park, and the second time i saw it parked up, it has 4 strobes behind the grill with clear lenses, and a dual strobe on the top windscreen above the rearview mirror.
It must have a chipped bigger engine than what you would normally expect on a small car like that, cos it flew past me!!!
So watch out people of Coventry!
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I have also seen this car roaming around and can confirm it definately appears to be an unmarked police car!!
 
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