CPSOs can drive police cars on lights, but not sirens - officers straight out of probation can use both.

The training is necessary before they're authorised to drive "pursuit" cars.

Sadly, the words 'Risk assessment'. If he'd kept closer to the vehicle and actually hit it himself (if the adorable little tyke driving it had jammed on the brakes, for example), then the officer would have caused the accident, and could probably be sued for whiplash injuries.

Seem to me that this type of police activity should be banned. There is no need to chase these drivers. They alreadyknow where the are going

Please tell me how the police would know that?

Ask the fast trackers running (ruining) the police with ample help from pc busybodies at the public teat and the usual mix of politicians, for the reasons why.

If you could persuade a real copper to tell it really how it is now (he won't cos it'll be his job and pension up the creek if it gets out), how the job has joined the race to bottom, as has so much of this country, how they spend most of the day covering their backsides via reports so they don't get into trouble or end up in the nick themselves for doing their jobs as they'd like to, you'd probably end up as disillusioned as they are.

I hear the truth regularly among my cronies, we often compare notes to see who has the most gaffers apparatchiks and admin operating each miner actually doing some graft at the coal face.

Wouldn't it be idylic to go back to the days of a pair of hulking great coppers, with real policemans helmets perched atop strolling the beat again, sorting the usual riff raff out by using their many years of coppers nose common sense, flicking the ear when it will do and seriously nicking those who deserve it, a place where the general public felt safe and only the criminals feared them (yes i know that's wishful thinking), one could almost call such a country Jerusalem.

Edited by gordonbennet on 30/10/2015 at 16:24