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PhilM said:
Firstly, requesting a car to stop is covered under the RTA 1988, and there is no requirement for circs - any constable can request any car to stop, carte blanche.

They can request any driver of a motor vehicle to provide their driving licence, home address and proof of insurance, too. This is all well documented.

If they've felt the vehicle was driving in a manner that may have suggested they were possibly impaired, and then there was a smell of cannabis, they can do a test.
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Sorry for not being clear, I wasn't referring to pulling people over in their cars in that post.
 
PhilM said:
Firstly, requesting a car to stop is covered under the RTA 1988, and there is no requirement for circs - any constable can request any car to stop, carte blanche.

They can request any driver of a motor vehicle to provide their driving licence, home address and proof of insurance, too. This is all well documented.

If they've felt the vehicle was driving in a manner that may have suggested they were possibly impaired, and then there was a smell of cannabis, they can do a test.
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Would you agree, alongside Jermaine Defoe, that there seems to be a pattern of behaviour regards who gets pulled over and why?
 
Rita_Poon said:
Would you agree, alongside Jermaine Defoe, that there seems to be a pattern of behaviour regards who gets pulled over and why?
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I got pulled over once.

The nice policeman was apparently suspicious because I was driving at the speed limit and not hogging the middle lane of the m6 late at night.

The only moral from that story that I see is... blithely sit in the middle lane doing 85, preferably on your mobile. That way you don't get pulled by unmarked police cars.

Weird huh?
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
I got pulled over once.

The nice policeman was apparently suspicious because I was driving at the speed limit and not hogging the middle lane of the m6 late at night.

The only moral from that story that I see is... blithely sit in the middle lane doing 85, preferably on your mobile. That way you don't get pulled by unmarked police cars.

Weird huh?
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Bet it made you feel really dangerous though didn’t it ? Like me when I tell the bus inspector my 11 year old is really 4
 
Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Good old West Mids plod.

Christ.
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I read elsewhere that the exceptional circumstances were a number of their armed response vehicles being out of service, due to being rammed in a chase.

This meant that it was a decision to either have the weapons in the vehicle, strapped in but never left, or for those armed officers to not be on the street.

That's where risk assessments come into place.
 
PhilM said:
I read elsewhere that the exceptional circumstances were a number of their armed response vehicles being out of service, due to being rammed in a chase.

This meant that it was a decision to either have the weapons in the vehicle, strapped in but never left, or for those armed officers to not be on the street.

That's where risk assessments come into place.
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A locker in a van.

They don't have a spare locker or two? And maybe a multi purpose van/car? What if they're rammed again and a gun goes off and one of plod cops both barrels? 'Hell to pay' doesn't come close.
 
Rita_Poon said:
A locker in a van.

They don't have a spare locker or two? And maybe a multi purpose van/car? What if they're rammed again and a gun goes off and one of plod cops both barrels? 'Hell to pay' doesn't come close.
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In the cars, the guns were secured into locked cases (gun gases) using seat belts to secure the case. The article itself says this at the bottom.

Typically, the cases are fitted into the boot, fully secured, but if a number of vehicles are off the road at the time (which can happen) it can lead to such situations.
 
PhilM said:
In the cars, the guns were secured into locked cases (gun gases) using seat belts to secure the case. The article itself says this at the bottom.

Typically, the cases are fitted into the boot, fully secured, but if a number of vehicles are off the road at the time (which can happen) it can lead to such situations.
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Rip the following. I realise accidents happen.
www.bbc.co.uk

Eltham: Pregnant woman dies after being hit by Met Police car

The car the 38-year-old and her unborn child were travelling in was hit by an unmarked police vehicle.
www.bbc.co.uk
I'm guessing guns can be stored or even armed whilst in undercover cars? Not that that is a factor here in this very sad case. I suppose the thing about rules and regs is if another accident were to happen and someone popped along and helped themselves to the case in the passenger seat.

Anyway, rules are there for the protection of all. Another episode of rules not applying to plod.
 
PhilM said:
I read elsewhere that the exceptional circumstances were a number of their armed response vehicles being out of service, due to being rammed in a chase.

This meant that it was a decision to either have the weapons in the vehicle, strapped in but never left, or for those armed officers to not be on the street.

That's where risk assessments come into place.
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Makes more sense. As presented in kinda assume they just got a bit slapdash.
 
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