Unmarked Police Cars

[Sp!ke]

If there is only one person ie the driver, I know it not a police car.

This is so incorrect.

Unmarked cars rarely have two occupants now due to the camera equipment installed.

The truth of it that its almost impossible to spot an unmarked car. It could be any vehicle, in any colour, with one or two occupants, with an extra mirror or without an extra mirror, With high vis jackets or without.

Basically, treat every other vehicle on the road with suspicion. Better still, don't go over 100 unless there is no other vehicle visible on the road ahead or behind.

 

[television]

Unmarked cars rarely have two occupants now due to the Better still, don't go over 100 unless there is no other vehicle visible on the road ahead or behind.

Or a chopper above

 

[Godot]

Well said Spike.
I assume the Thread title referred to Unmarked Police Cars on routine Traffic Duty etc.

I have known & been in quite a few "London Taxis", delivery vans etc. Not however "normal type duties"

 

[Godot]

Malcolm,
Choppers above are good, but are more effective for surveillance if they are a mile or two away from the "target" watching at an angle with quality kit. Target then not so aware they are being targeted etc.

Softly Softly Catchee Monkey, as the saying goes

 

[ANP320]

I reckon if you are sat anywhere near the top of Castle Hill in Folkestone, Godot, you'll be able to see what's going on along the M20 and report back!

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

There's a member who knows all about this stuff, and at a recent GTG shared much interesting information about the technology used to integrate the 'copters and jam sandwiches.

Hopefully he'll be along shortly to chip in.

 

[robert.saunders]

I prefer lemon curd

 

[television]

Malcolm,
Choppers above are good, but are more effective for surveillance if they are a mile or two away from the "target" watching at an angle with quality kit. Target then not so aware they are being targeted etc.

Softly Softly Catchee Monkey, as the saying goes

In Sweden they fly just as you say, they would be overhead my house and be 1-3 miles from the motorway network

 

[DaveK]

Are you teling me that we have ' plod " on here, hiding behind some made up name or other ?. Any vetting procedures in place to make sure they are not trawling this board for more sinister reasons ?

 

[para alpha]

There is a VW (Passat of some sort, but I won't post the reg) Dark Blue in colour and a W8 motor in it! This is Merseyside Police unmarked traffic car. Usually driving up and down the M58, M57 and the A580 (East Lancashire Road) Between Fazakerly and the Rainford Bypass. Usually one occupants wearing a blue or white T shirt with a small Merseyside Police Badge. It has 2 cameras on board. One bullet type located just below the rear-view mirror, and one mounted on the parcel shelf. It also has 2 covert strobes mounted on the rear passenger head rests...

I had a good look around this car the other day when the driver was in the chip shop on the corner of Stopgate lane and the East Lancs road. I have seen this a number of times in various locations and was just curious so I had a peek, It's very sneaky

 

[robert.saunders]

Are you teling me that we have ' plod " on here, hiding behind some made up name or other ?. Any vetting procedures in place to make sure they are not trawling this board for more sinister reasons ?

You're so funny

 

[robert.saunders]

There is a VW (Passat of some sort, but I won't post the reg) Dark Blue in colour and a W8 motor in it! This is Merseyside Police unmarked traffic car. Usually driving up and down the M58, M57 and the A580 (East Lancashire Road) Between Fazakerly and the Rainford Bypass. Usually one occupants wearing a blue or white T shirt with a small Merseyside Police Badge. It has 2 cameras on board. One bullet type located just below the rear-view mirror, and one mounted on the parcel shelf. It also has 2 covert strobes mounted on the rear passenger head rests...

I had a good look around this car the other day when the driver was in the chip shop on the corner of Stopgate lane and the East Lancs road. I have seen this a number of times in various locations and was just curious so I had a peek, It's very sneaky

Take a look at Traffic Cops on last night; marked (not all that well, to be frank!) black Suzuki Hayabusa. That's some device

 

[ibrar]

Tell tale signs are that most unmarked police cars usually have multiple aerials sticking out of the back of them. Most tend to be either Mondeo/E-class/5 series/Volvo estates. They are most commonly silver (in some cases black) and have specialised equipment always sitting in their front & back main windows. There are usually 2 bald guys sitting in the front 2 seats!

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Take a look at Traffic Cops on last night; marked (not all that well, to be frank!) black Suzuki Hayabusa. That's some device

Saw that too. Good programme. The second black Range Rover (not RR Sport) looked like it was an Overfinch or JE - just saw a glimpse of a badge on the rump. Anyway...

How they used it for PR at the biker cafe is great. They seem to go to lots of big events too, like Goodwood Festival of Speed, etc. Always pull a crowd.

Always very happy to talk when I've seen them too, interesting to talk to and thoroughly nice blokes. Their bikes and cars are interesting too.

 

[Mondorich]

Any other sugestions for someone like me who has very bad eyes

Glasses ?

 

[Howard]

Good advice. Thanks all.

So does the presence of a roadside sign warning of cameras apply to mobile cameras in unmarked cars? I suppose it must.

The police on the M3 have a couple of Skoda Octavia VRS's , one black , one silver that they terrorise the unwary in ....

Watch out , theres a skoda about ....

 

[ANP320]

Yup, t'was a black Skoda Octavia I saw yesterday but it had migrated to the A3. Goin' like the clappers as well.

 

[television]

This is the fastest Police car in the world

 

[ANP320]

Very nice police lady

 

[DaveK]

Surely we want to see ' Marked Traffic " cars on our roads, acting as a deterrent to those who feel like ignoring the motoring laws with unnmarked vehicles used for CID.

I suspect the answer is that Marked vehicles make drivers behave when they are in the vicinity and thus no money raising fixed penalty notices are going to be handed out in big numbers.