Slug Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Apologies if been covered before. Has anyone noticed the increase of unmarked Police cars ? So your bumbling along minding your own business and you get a Black Vectra that appears to have Blue flashing concealed strobes in the front grill, the occupants appear not to be wearing a Police uniform, you have your guns on board..Do you have to stop by law ? Maybe an urban myth but I was told you don't have to stop unless it's a marked car, one for the better legally informed I suspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapper063 Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 i would not stop but phone 999 to check or pull in where plenty of people are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libs Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 I would stop and be very polite the the police officers whilst I was appologising for going so fast, as I was focusing so much on the road ahead I neglected to look down at my instruments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Im pretty sure you still have to stop for unmarked Police cars.Infact,whenever i watch Roadwars etc they're forever pulling cars over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagsy Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 This may help... https://www.askthe.police.uk/Content/Q587.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuck. Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Good question, anyone can buy blue strobes off ebay and follow you home from the farm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight32 Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 I think you would be on sticky ground, the likelehood of of you being held up and robbed by by crooks disguised as police only washed on the st valentines day massacre. I think I would stop, if you were being cases you would have noticed it on the farm I would have thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webber Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Assuming that you have guns in the car. Keep driving, telephone the police, preferably with the registration number of the vehicle. The Police will soon advise if the stop is genuine. How are you to know that you have not been observed by criminals. Without going into finite detail on an open forum, there are schemes in place to prevent certain goods in transit being hijacked. webber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Keep driving, telephone the police, ......and then they will probably do you with talking on the phone while driving.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSS Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 If you don't stop for them, they will probably take action. Flash the hazards and acknowledge you have seen them and then continue to drive to the nearest police station. Phone them whilst you are driving, hands free of course, and check with the area control room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuck. Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 (edited) I think you would be on sticky ground, the likelehood of of you being held up and robbed by by crooks disguised as police only washed on the st valentines day massacre. I think I would stop, if you were being cases you would have noticed it on the farm I would have thought. I remember a story on here a while ago about someone spending a few hours out on the pigeons and being watched then being pulled over by a convoy of unmarked cars for a training exercise on his way home Edited April 5, 2010 by Shuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuck. Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Without going into finite detail on an open forum, there are schemes in place to prevent certain goods in transit being hijacked. webber Interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted April 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 Assuming that you have guns in the car. Keep driving, telephone the police, preferably with the registration number of the vehicle. The Police will soon advise if the stop is genuine. How are you to know that you have not been observed by criminals. Without going into finite detail on an open forum, there are schemes in place to prevent certain goods in transit being hijacked. webber I would be interested to hear those off line.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted April 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 I think also you will find the amount of "Shunt" crimes have gone through the roof lately, I wouldn't stop for an unmarked car personally but call 999, and get them to do a confirmed stop..It will give the ARV's a bit of practice.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDAV Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 This may help... https://www.askthe.police.uk/Content/Q587.htm Exactly as described above I would class oneself carrying firearms/cash/ or other valuables as "vunerable" and follow the advice given in the link..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flexouk Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 What a tricky one. If you stop you can always ask for I.D but that would be to late if its not a police car. A number of bank robbers have used this old trick. I think human nature would make you inclinded to pull over. How do you tell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyr8 Posted April 5, 2010 Report Share Posted April 5, 2010 the motorways are full of unmarked police cars on traffic duty pulling speeding motorists,it,s illegal for members of the public to have blue lights fitted to there cars.i,ve seen some unmarked police cars with a red neon sign fitted in the rear window that they can light up saying police stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slug Posted April 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 I did say in my OP that they appear to not be in uniform. Many Police on special ops where civvies, however what is a "marked" car by definition ? I assume reading between the lines on Bagsy's link if it has a flashing "Police" sign in the back that's marked ?, I dunno I will send an email to Essex Police and try to find out, I am sure somewhere in the PACE guidelines it must say... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kit Monster Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 It's classed as 'marked' if it has 'markings'. If it's 'easily identifiable' as a Police car, ie. has the word 'police' written on it, reflective strips/battenberg, crest etc then thats marked. If in doubt, as said before, call 999. And no you wont get done for using your phone, it's allowed. They will confirm that it's genuine but you will probably get a marked car behind you before you get an answer, as the unmarked will have already called it in. Whatever you do...dont floor it... unless of course you're 100% that it's not the police! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordieh Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 I would drive to the nearest open police which around here after 1800 is one of the divisional HQ's, which would probably take up about an hour of their time, meanwhile leaving other innocent motorists alone. If everybody did this they would soon stop hassling folk for minor stuff Geordie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuck. Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 it,s illegal for members of the public to have blue lights fitted to there cars.i,ve seen some unmarked police cars with a red neon sign fitted in the rear window that they can light up saying police stop. Ehh it's also illegal to pull over members of the public and impersonating a police officer but I guess that wont stop criminals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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