London Questions

[Stu]

Well there's a f*** load of white/Silver cars marked up City of London Police that drive around the, er .... City

These red ones are around Parliament etc.


They are NOT City

(And no I will not point a water pistol at them )

[the_lone_wolf]

wikipedia says they are Diplomatic Protection Group:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_car

[mr.anderson]

Originally Posted by Stu

What are red Police cars? I thought they were diplomatic, but one looked like he was doing a Traffic stop the other day - Young Black guy driving so I guess it could be Terror related ( - pls don't go off on one )

No idea - but they don't seem to care about me when I employ "adventurous" filtering tactics past them in the morning.

Why do scooters have millions of plastic tabs attached to their bike?

You mean hideous stickers? Chavs.
Or the thing that looks like a bookstand attached to the front? A map holder for folks doing the Knowledge.
Otherwise I dunno what you're talking about.

Why did the Italian registered naked MV racing me this morning have such a gorgeous pillion, just like most Italian bikes

Because their wallet is larger than you p****.

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[Stu]

Originally Posted by mr.anderson

You mean hideous stickers? Chavs.
Or the thing that looks like a bookstand attached to the front? A map holder for folks doing the Knowledge.
Otherwise I dunno what you're talking about.

No, it's like the thing some garages would attach to your keys when you put it in for service

I think red fuzzmobile means they are armed, but the ones with the bright yellow circles on the windows are armed for sure.

Tags.....erm, you mean the ones that look like cable ties?.....They'll be parking permits for Canary Wharf.

Italian bikes....pah!

[Stu]

Ah Canary Whharf? so how does that work then? how much? & what's thhe risk of someone nicking your permit?

What, so you never hhd a looker on the back of yours?

[ethariel]

SO - Special Operations.

Not all DPG ride about in red cars, a lot of them are in a Ford Galaxy, Landrover/Rangerover or a very well armoured jag or 6.

The red cars first started cropping up about the time the 'original ring of leggo' went up (for those of you that remember what i mean) and were accompanied by red vans.

Then again i could be so very wrong...LOL

[Ch00]

The red police cars are from the Diplomatic Protection Group. They have a number of different type of vehicle and most of them are red. They are all armed. They are red because they are partly paid for by the Diplomats they protect and they wanted to make it easy to spot them.

Bluethunder – I thought you would have known that there are at least Met!!!!