Local Fuzz in Dorset are now armed with a Focus ST, no worries then!!!

[telboy]

So my local fuzz in Bournemouth have just got themselves a marked 5 door Ford Focus ST as one their cars, no worries then should I need to get away (just kidding of course!)

Especially as I soon will have the funds for a remap of my steel greey ed30 beast (with Monzas of course!)

I'm sure I've seen an unmarked ed30 as a motorway car before, anyone else seen any interesting police cars? 

[R32UK]

M5 nottingham motorway police!!

[MikeGTI]

Theres an umarked Silver ST that cruises around Stratford / Warwick area.

I left him standing in my old 3.2 A3 on a bypass. Car in front reduced us to 5mph as it was turning off so I thought I'd have some fun with the ST I'd seen being driven a bit lairy but was now behind me. Floored it from 5mph to a nudge over the legal limit then slowed for my turn off. He came and had a quiet word when I'd stopped in the car park I was going to but no more than that.

[RedRobin]

....I think you'll find that the boys in blue who drive the unmarked cars can wipe the floor with you anytime they want - Their driver training will far exceed your skills if push comes to shove. The same goes for many of the marked car drivers as well.

[MikeGTI]

Please don't be under the misconception that I claiming to have raced the chap for many miles cross country. I was simply pointing out that the 3.2 out accelerated his ST with ease along a bypass. Not much skill required by either of us when travelling in a straight line.

I'm not in the habit of trying to outrun police cars.

[Gene Hunt.]

So my local fuzz in Bournemouth have just got themselves a marked 5 door Ford Focus ST as one their cars, no worries then should I need to get away (just kidding of course!)



I'm sure I've seen an unmarked ed30 as a motorway car before, anyone else seen any interesting police cars? 

............north yorks have a couple of scoobies.

[pulp58]

I see Wiltshire Police's (and i make note all the time) as I drive past the Devizes and Melksham headquaters alot so you see them leaving at different times of the day to go issue some tickets!

They have:

Unmarked BMW 330d in silver (07 plate)
Unmarked BMW 330i one black and one in Grey colour.(Think both are 56 plates)
Unmarked 2008 BMW X5 in silver (57 Plate)
Unmarked BMW X5 3.0d in silver (this one has four aerials on top)
Unmarked Mondeo ST V6 one in dark blue and one silver (both 55 plates)
Unmarked Honda Accord estate 2.2 CDTI in Purple (lots of these)

I find it very easy to tell they are police. You can see the lights in the BMW grills so easily. They also they have a small square box that sits under the rear veiw mirror and a box that sits on the dash board thats quite visible from outside. That seems to be some sort of number plate reader.  Wiltshire cars also tend to have one or two aerials sticking up from top (dead give away) and they tend to have a stop sign on the back parcel shelf which is quite noticable.

Wiltshire police are boring, they should get a fleet of R32!s

[Kermit]

The police certainly have some skillful drivers (maybe not so when it comes to standard "bobby on the beat" guys from my experience) but the same skills can be enjoyed by normal folk by undertaking the Advanced Driver training. Unfortunately you wont learn about pursuit driving as its not something we need to do everyday . When I was doing the training for this the handbook used was the Police Drivers Handbook (now they have a specific Advanced Driver manual that has evolved over the years) and you are taught by different people each week (or whoevers an observer in the group) and sometimes you will get a police driver (ex or serving) - not wishing to preach but anyone that takes pride in their driving and the skill you exhibit in doing so should look at training for this (just by being observed by people with this training and skill is very useful).  I started my training a few weeks after passing my L-Test and the amount of things you are not doing after the L-Test is scary (plus the bad habits I had picked up with my limited experience), I'm surprised I managed to safely get around and not cause havoc 

Anyway - back the thread, we seem to have black Octavia vRS patrolling the M6 in Cheshire which I suspect would be pretty useful but difficult to pick out at night

[Manu_R32]

Down here in Gibraltar we have One marked Honda Civic Saloon...and about four ford focus saloons in silver, blue and red....all the ford focus's have been scratched to bits and vandalised.... If only gib wasnt so small.....

[Komenda]

Still the best Police car, even if it was just for promo work