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I watch this with interest but one thing puzzles me. In most of the police cars there is a long stalk on the right of the steering wheel. I have seen it operated with the right index finger. It's obviously retro fitted to chase cars.

Anyone know what it's for please!

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As above it's for the comms.

Pull it towards you to talk and when released it goes back to centre and if you push it away from you it stays in open mic position. 

Unfortunately it's a sod for pushing back with your knee when your moving about and you are on open mic without knowing about it..................not always good depending on the topic of conversation you and your colleague are having

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23 minutes ago, TommoTomson said:

As above it's for the comms.

Pull it towards you to talk and when released it goes back to centre and if you push it away from you it stays in open mic position. 

Unfortunately it's a sod for pushing back with your knee when your moving about and you are on open mic without knowing about it..................not always good depending on the topic of conversation you and your colleague are having

That sounds slightly different to ours. Ours are just a button on the end of a semi rigid flexible stalk. Push the button to talk on the radio. 

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9 hours ago, Medic1281 said:

That sounds slightly different to ours. Ours are just a button on the end of a semi rigid flexible stalk. Push the button to talk on the radio. 

I'd imagine there will be some differences between the forces.

The ones we had were handy as you could leave your mic open during a pursuit and feed info back to control (usually on a channel set up for that job and they would then pass the info out to other units on the standard channels) whilst having both hands fully on the wheel.

They may have changed things now. 

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