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[OT] Motorway police and road safety advice
The following has been doing the rounds. I'm taking the OP up on the
advice to "pass onto anyone who you might just need to know". If it does in fact come from Hants County Council Road Safety Publicity, Education and Training, it's interesting to see their tone on the matter of unmarked police cars described in loving detail. For Information: M3 & M27 Area : "Traffic Cops" For Information Hants Police are involved in doing a television programme series from tomorrow (26th September) for seven weeks. If you use the M27 or the M3 this potentially affects you so please proceed with caution and pass onto anyone who you feel might just need to know. The program a BBC South commission called "Traffic Cops" will be filmed covering the area from Ringwood concentrating on Ringwood M27 up to M3 J9 and a team working the ring road around Southampton (Totton will have a unit working it alone), Cosham M27 stretch to J5 of the M27 (Southampton Airport turn-off). The fourth concentration is working from Winchester Services covering M3 to J10 M3 (Winchester South) using five unmarked cars, two Black Skoda 03 registration Octavias, an 05 plate dark red Mondeo and two Volvo saloon cars. The BBC unit are going to be based out of Southampton and will also be covering the armed police response unit and the Southampton Airport Police Security / British Transport Police team. The BBC team are in Citreon Picasso MPVs leased from Arriva. To make it even more effective the Traffic police have authority from Chief Constable to "work to rule" So instead of the laid back approach to the usual Hants traffic police this will be a lot more concentrated to make it effective filming. Kristen Allin Road Safety Publicity, Education & Training 01962 846472 |
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[OT] Motorway police and road safety advice
Richard wrote:
The following has been doing the rounds. I'm taking the OP up on the advice to "pass onto anyone who you might just need to know". If it does in fact come from Hants County Council Road Safety Publicity, Education and Training, it's interesting to see their tone on the matter of unmarked police cars described in loving detail. How would you tell the real from the fake. Perhaps a few chain letter duplicates naming our favourite local problem roads might have an impact? -- Tony "I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" Anon |
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[OT] Motorway police and road safety advice
Richard wrote:
The following has been doing the rounds. I'm taking the OP up on the advice to "pass onto anyone who you might just need to know". If it does in fact come from Hants County Council Road Safety Publicity, Education and Training, it's interesting to see their tone on the matter of unmarked police cars described in loving detail. All of those described are already known, the VR6 vento (black IIRC), V70 volvo saloons (burgundy and green, without day running lights) and several subarus (met blue, red and black) are also known locally, then there are the *unts in disguise vehicles kept hidden at Tanneries House for deep cover operations (those I will NOT describe). The increase in pro-active traffic police has been noted, one regular M27 user commented she'd seen more this week than in the last two years! Though another M27 user reports being stuck watching the film unit for 5 minutes at one accident in the pouring rain and dark whilst they got the footage they required. The increase in police traffic work has to be a good thing, its not considered a core thing these days, but I suspect as soon as the cameras have gone it will back to the usual situation. I have also observed an increase in traffic officers patrolling in towns, two white top cap'd officers were seen locally today well away from the motorways, shame they didn't catch the Smart driver driving the wrong way down a clearly marked one way street we saw this afternoon... Niel, Hants. |
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