Saw this item yesterday...........
www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/07/20.../
Edited by Pugugly on 22/07/2008 at 08:27
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He's never used the lights and took immediate steps tp disable them. Admininstrative oversight/cock up mixed with inter-organisational politics.
Silly season already?
Edited by Honestjohn on 21/07/2008 at 14:14
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Or `nice try`, as we used to say at School?
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Edited by Honestjohn on 21/07/2008 at 14:13
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He is in the wrong.
Road Vehicle Lighting Regs 1989 (applies to Scoland)
16. No vehicle, other than an emergency vehicle, shall BE FITTED with-
(a) a blue warning beacon or special warning lamp, or
(b) a device which resembles a blue warning beacon or a special warning lamp, whether the same is in working order or not.
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Just out of interest DVD, are the Prince of Wales's Bentley and the Queen's RR Phantom, not to mention the Whitehall limos (one assumes the bulletproof Prius is still being perfected), classed as emergency vehicles to make their discreet blues legal? Or can we all have them as long as they are out of sight behind the grille? Quite fancy some I must say.
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Two points
If the vehicles are owned by The Queen - she can do no wrong.
secondly when they are on the move security is at a maximum and police will be in the vehicle. Emergency does include vehicle used for police puposes i.e. security of the royalnesses. ?
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And did the cop not notice this funny control panel that had been left on his BMW and say to himself "That's a funny Sat-Nav system". Funny when I set it to find Newcastle, the car starts making a funny noise and strange lights start flashing from somewhere.
I wonder if he leaves his old cop hat in his car so he can get away with parking fines.....
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Its a bit of a tax dodge. I know of two Forces that do it. Cars leased to Senior Officers and "civvies" have blues and twos fitted to their cars so that they are Police vehicles to avoid all the company car tax issues. North Wales Police were spragged to the press on the practice a few years ago.
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Yes my thoughts. In view of the pretense that its a fleet car always thought I might nip up the corridor, "Can I just borrow your car boss?". Or maybe not.
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A friend in the "Job" actually said the same, I think it was when a certain Force's Finance Director got such a "pool" car.
Edited by Pugugly on 22/07/2008 at 12:19
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Emergency does include vehicle used for police puposes i.e. security of the royalnesses. ?
Hmmmm... thanks DVD. Perhaps one could keep them for use on one of those occasions when a policeman leaps into your car waving a warrant card and shouting: 'Follow that car!'
Happens all the time I understand.
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The point is, though, is that the guy was RETIRED from the police - so should have known better - and his car was no longer owned by the police - so why did they sell it in that condition?
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....... - so why did they sell it in that condition?
It's not clear (to me, anyway) whether it was actually sold by Central Scotland Police. According to the article, Mulhern said: "The car was secured by SPSA from Central Scotland Police when I moved into this post.".
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And why did it take him 2 years to take "immediate steps".......?
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