Saw some Met police cars in Portsmouth area today, with thier blue
lights on, with a plain land rover in the middle, looks a bit odd,
because they're way out of the Met area, any ideas what that was all
about?
shazzbat - 15 May 2008 22:59 GMT
> Saw some Met police cars in Portsmouth area today, with thier blue
> lights on, with a plain land rover in the middle, looks a bit odd,
> because they're way out of the Met area, any ideas what that was all
> about?
They may be having a blitz on whatever offence is flavour of the moment. A
few weeks ago in the Ferndown/Ringwood area there were loads of cars and
ANPR vans about, and some of them were welsh.
Steve
Brian - 16 May 2008 09:22 GMT
On May 15, 10:27 pm, her_majestys_secret_serv...@trashmail.net wrote:
> Saw some Met police cars in Portsmouth area today, with thier blue
> lights on, with a plain land rover in the middle, looks a bit odd,
> because they're way out of the Met area, any ideas what that was all
> about?
Probably escort duty.
But then, they don't use Escorts any more. ;)
Steve Firth - 18 May 2008 02:48 GMT
> On May 15, 10:27 pm, her_majestys_secret_serv...@trashmail.net wrote:
> > Saw some Met police cars in Portsmouth area today, with thier blue
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> But then, they don't use Escorts any more. ;)
I drove down towards Pompey today. At one point, on a country lane, I
faced an oncoming vehicle driven by someone determined not to use the
passing place on his side of the road and determined to force me to
drive into a hedge so that he could pass.
I could tell that he was a knobhead because his car had ESCORT written
on the bonnet, but it was a Range Rover. Fancy not being able to tell
the difference.
Doki - 16 May 2008 09:23 GMT
> Saw some Met police cars in Portsmouth area today, with thier blue
> lights on, with a plain land rover in the middle, looks a bit odd,
> because they're way out of the Met area, any ideas what that was all
> about?
Nicking someone perhaps? I've heard of the Met travelling up to Notts to
nick people they presumably didn't trust the local bobbies to nick.
Martyn H - 17 May 2008 19:28 GMT
> <her_majestys_secret_serv...@trashmail.net> wrote in message
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> Nicking someone perhaps? I've heard of the Met travelling up to Notts to
> nick people they presumably didn't trust the local bobbies to nick.
or usually the local plod have nicked someone often for 'stupid stuff'
like S5 public order, dodgy car or jumping the ticket barriers at the
station and when they get fingerprinted/ put in front of livescan it
comes back they are wanted on warrant ...
Carl Gibbs - 16 May 2008 20:53 GMT
> Saw some Met police cars in Portsmouth area today, with thier blue
> lights on, with a plain land rover in the middle, looks a bit odd,
> because they're way out of the Met area, any ideas what that was all
> about?
Sorting out some dodgy goings-on before the FA Cup final?