According to a few articles re Scottish Police Cars the likes of Weight Watchers will be busy!.
Patrol cars - typically Focus/Astra have a weight limit and apparently 2 x overweight policemen/women can only take 1 x offender in the back - 2 x offenders and they have to call for another car/van.
Cars like lorries have maxm weights they can carry. Of course the typical patrol car carries a boot full of stuff already and this again limits the no of bodies it can carry.
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They should buy cars second hand off students then - all the ones I seemed to travel in could take at least 10 people.
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This caused me to think a bit (and now I have to lie down).
Police patrols cars are just standard Astras/Focuses with livery and lights.
Now i'm no expert but sureley Vauxhall/Ford will design the max weight with a full passenger load (5 seats) and a full boot of luggage.
Even with 2 police and 2 suspects in the back there is the weight allowance of the spare seat not used, and even with the equipment in the boot this won't equal the weight of a full load of suitcases, for example. (patrol car does not carry half the equipment of the area/response car).
I think its more likely for officer satety reasons than the car being overweight.
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2x 16 stone policemen+ 2 x suspects @ 12 stone + kit in boot = 8cwt =0.4 ton!
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2x 16 stone policemen+ 2 x suspects @ 12 stone + kit in boot = 8cwt =0.4 ton!
How did two overweight policemen manage to catch two slim crooks?
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tiny.cc/49l3G -> Fast show sketch - Fat Cops - what else?!
...both I thought were very funny!
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How did two overweight policemen manage to catch two slim crooks?
Indeed - in Scotland, most police cars are parked up at the police stations or in McDonald's car parks - rarely see them out on the street actually doing anything.
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in Scotland, most police cars are parked up at the police stations or in McDonald's car parks
Down in West Sussex in my home town they're parked at the Chippie , KFC and the local Kebab shop as well... I'm not joking - and on double yellows.....
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Oh I think I've cracked another rib laughing. I don't know the content of the Scottish newspaper article but will give another angle. 2 police Officers in the front of a car should not carry two prisoners in the back no matter how many doughnuts they have eaten.
Rule of thumb is one prisoner two escorting Officers, one to drive and the other sat alongside the prisoner in the rear.
The ideal mode of transport is a van with a suitable cage (cell). The rationale behind this is simple Health and Safety. A prisoner in the rear of the car could overcome the driver with serious consequences.
Solo Officers have been known to convey prisoners. Remember a recent case where the prisoner pulled on the handbrake and the Police driver - PC Joe Carroll from Northumbria, was subsequently killed?
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That's certainly the case for us in S Yorks - van for more than one, or for someone anything other than docile.
The weight of extra kit in the car (extra electrical stuff, additional battery, rooflights, cones, signs, big red doorkey - 25kg alone) -as well as us fat 16 stone cops wearing another 2 stone of equipment each will push us to the limit.
And our force transport people are looking at Fiestas now....
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Defiantly have to cut out the 3am kebabs then! When you go to Protons you have hit rock bottom!
Edited by Fullchat on 03/09/2008 at 22:18
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During my two short careers as a South London minicab driver in 1973 and 1975, a period that has left an indelible and not all good (ask Ms Lud) mark on my personality, we used to joke that blues'n'twos meant the kebabs were getting cold. But it was only a joke. And plod could be jolly decent when he clocked you at 50 when you were working and had a punter aboard. Chapeau, in fact. That period in my life taught me many useful things, including the value of restraint, even caution, at the wheel and the practical, humane side of the traffic fuzz.
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