Rozzer Shite

[martc]

Times Square, Noo Yoik, 1971.

[Dick Longbridge]

'Forget the Harrier, boys. The old bill are running bloody 1.2 Nova saloons!' 

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Some I've uploaded:

Seen at Nissan UK Design Centre in the late '90s. I believe there were were one or two other demos in the same series (R506 YFC used by Strathclyde Police).

I bet they found this 323F rather cramped, as we did for family duties.

Low-spec V6  (Cartell said GLS) on steels.

Another one from the John Powell archive, with a rather large blue light.

[sheffcortinacentre]

11 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The corgi MK2 zephyr est is supposed to be based on this car.

[stuboy]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

'Forget the Harrier, boys. The old bill are running bloody 1.2 Nova saloons!' 

 

 

[AnthonyG]

I have a great old Ian Allan book somewhere, must dig it out for this thread. ‘Police Vehicles of the World’ circa 1978. 

As a child I loved all the obscure exotic foreign things like Alpine A310s used by the French gendarmerie - and to identify the various cars from American cop shows - whereas now it’s more interesting to see the evidence of an era when Ford and GM dominated globally, with cars such as Mk3/4 Cortinas used by police forces as disparate as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cyprus, South Africa etc.

A lot of Caribbean and African countries still used British motorcycles at this time as well. 

 

[Ghosty]

On 11/7/2022 at 11:21 AM, Crackers said:

*can't think of the real word

Station manager or fire marshal probably. 

I was baffled the other day, sitting in a bar in Cheadle when a Kia Sportage went past with sirens and concealed blues going off.  That's catching no bugger. 
 

Sure enough, fire car. It probably also has a sign that says 'FIRE' on the passenger sun visor. I've also seen a bright orange Peugeot crossover kitted out as such. 

I guess fire station managers just get concealed blues on their own cars?

 

[SunnySouth]

9 hours ago, Ghosty said:

Station manager or fire marshal probably. 

I was baffled the other day, sitting in a bar in Cheadle when a Kia Sportage went past with sirens and concealed blues going off.  That's catching no bugger. 
 

Sure enough, fire car. It probably also has a sign that says 'FIRE' on the passenger sun visor. I've also seen a bright orange Peugeot crossover kitted out as such. 

I guess fire station managers just get concealed blues on their own cars?

 

We have a Vauxhall garage very closeby (need to be more discerning next time we move) and a fire HQ up the road, and a fire service special making regular appearances at both seems to be jacked up XC70-style Insignias in white, with concealed blues.

Never noticed the 'off road' Insignia in any other role, but I presume it is/was commercially available for paupers who haven't hit the giddy heights of Volvo or Audi ownership?

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Ghosty]

2 hours ago, SunnySouth said:

Never noticed the 'off road' Insignia in any other role, but I presume it is/was commercially available for paupers who haven't hit the giddy heights of Volvo or Audi ownership?

Yes, it's called the Insignia Country Tourer. 

[Richard_FM]

A few from my collection:

[Asimo]

West Mercia Constabulary, (who employed me, briefly, as a plod in ‘76 / 77) were proud of the reg. number on the Chief Constables Rover. Said to be the first number issued to the Worcester area. Chief’s Jag from an earlier time with the number, which was-sold off five years ago.

They also had the number AAB 1, which I remember on a Lunar Grey Rover 3500S, quite possibly the same car that suffered an alternator failiure whilst I was a passenger. 
West Mercia were early BMW users having bikes, 2500 saloons and the very first 525s at that time. The traffic dept. often had trial cars from other makers, Renault 30 and Vauxhall (VX4/90 ?) come to mind.

A few years later they had this.

M5 junction 4, just before it was widened to six lanes.

[warren t claim]

My ex plod Focus and its twin still striped up.

[stuboy]

[CaptainBoom]

I don't think that I've posted this one before:

Allders, Croydon, post 1987 I guess.  Met livery, i don't know why but an SD1 police car looks just 'right'.  Pity the jam butty stripe is distorted over the rear arch though

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Justin Case]

[SunnySouth]

On 11/10/2022 at 10:40 PM, warren t claim said:

My ex plod Focus and its twin still striped up.

That's not still going surely, on an 07 plate?! 

[sierraman]

On 11/10/2022 at 10:58 PM, stuboy said:

The very last ST200 were white, all a cancelled police order, there was one near me on a 51 plate until a few years ago.

[eddyramrod]

On 11/10/2022 at 12:04 AM, AnthonyG said:

I have a great old Ian Allan book somewhere, must dig it out for this thread. ‘Police Vehicles of the World’ circa 1978. 

As a child I loved all the obscure exotic foreign things like Alpine A310s used by the French gendarmerie - and to identify the various cars from American cop shows - whereas now it’s more interesting to see the evidence of an era when Ford and GM dominated globally, with cars such as Mk3/4 Cortinas used by police forces as disparate as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cyprus, South Africa etc.

A lot of Caribbean and African countries still used British motorcycles at this time as well. 

 

I have that book too   It was and still is very interesting.  Maybe I should get my police-car books out for a photo session!

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Richard_FM]

22 hours ago, Justin Case said:

Some RHD ones were used by American police departments as they could easily jump out & write out parking tickets.

[warren t claim]

15 hours ago, SunnySouth said:

That's not still going surely, on an 07 plate?! 

No. I weighed it in about five years ago.

[MiniMinorMk3]

[MiniMinorMk3]

[Matty]

Capri still managing to look twice as hard as the Sierra.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Same with the drivers

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 06/11/2022 at 13:16, MiniMinorMk3 said:

P.C McGarry number 452

[J R Hartley]

[Wibble]