Unmarked Police Cars.

Originally Posted by Jdubya

Not nice mate. There are plenty of coppers on here, some of whome are really nice people, just doing their jobs.

Sorry i edited it, didn't realise how bad it was... i've nothing against them at all!!!

Originally Posted by pencil shavings

I cant really see the use of this thread becasue you arnt going to remember all this information incase you see a car in your area. What are you going to do, acess the .org on your lap top via your 3 internet while doing somthing else illegal to see if the car infrom of you is a police car??

Also, if you see the car, its probably too late to do anything about what law you are braking unless you come up behind it, in which case you will be able to tell its a police car by give aways like areals, extra lights, extra mirrors, extra computors in the front, policemen in uniform sometimes etc.

yes there are unmarked cars out there, so what, just be aware that they are possibly around the next corner and observe the cars around you, which you should be doing anyway. imo if you are going so fast that it isnt safe to have this level of observation, you are going too fast. It is easy enough to do this at 'normal motorway excess speeds'!

I totally understand your point of view mate, my intention was that if you know one is working a certain area and you notice you've got a car matching that one giving you some attention you;d be more inclined to wind off and take it easy until you part ways rather than think sod this **** and wind it on to get outta there only for them to flash the blues and pop goes ya licence. The 3 points which are currently on my licence were aquired in very similar circumstances from the silver T5 I mentioned. Im not hoping to cheat the law or anything just maybe cause people to think twice before getting excited with the right hand.

yeah i see the point of the thread in so far as informing people that there are marked cars about and you shoud take that into consideration when overtaking cars.

but unless the list is total, I cant see any real point in it. there might be a green bmw unmarked car that bucks the trend of unmarked cars put out on the road tomorrow. as this wont be on the list you would still need to be doing all the checks you should be doing anyway IMO.

Me and my mates were sat in a industrial estate one night =\ and i saw this BMW X5 go past i just knew it was a copper 20 secs later he's turned round comes to where we parked yea defo copper, blues on i knew it, a previous night to that i saw this car parked up could only see headlights and nothing else said to my mate thats a copper sure enough it was and it was a marked one, ie got a sixth sense, a police sensing one methinks

Originally Posted by stevie16v

Remember that alot of fire service use unmarked cars with blues aswell. That might explain the older cars eg the veccy mentioned above

My Dad got pulled last year by the oldest unmarked car in NYP - Black Vaux Omega - That's all I remember him saying about it. Up Helmsley way that was!

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Originally Posted by leedsmatt7

Location: West Yorkshire
Hot Spots: M62 between Jct 27 and 25
Colour: Navy Blue
Make: Volvo
Give Aways: Blue flashing lights

Yup found this one today. He was obviously in a good mood (or a hurry) as he gave me something of a hand-signed b*ll*cking though his open window at motorway cruising speed. Oops

wiltshire:

bmw estate, dark grey
bmw saloon, light grey
volvo estate, dark blue