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Both of
Northumbria Police's Polaris jetskis. Decked out in battenburg livery,
these personal watercraft (PWC), more commonly called jetskis, are very
manoeuvrable and have 1200cc engines that can take the rider (and two
passengers) up to 60mph. They follow from the success of a trial in 1993. |
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NK54 MYP is a Northumbria Police Volvo S60. |
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NK54 NAU The rear view of a similar S60. Notice the
variable message matrix sign in the centre of the lightbar. For example,
it can alternate between moving chevrons "> >
> >" then "TURN RIGHT" to direct traffic. |
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This is a Norfolk Constabulary safety camera unit,
commonly known as a mobile speed camera. It is a yellow Mercedes van with
one band of battenburg up the side and amber flashing beacons. |
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LX03 AEK This is a Met police 2003 Ford Fiesta in
silver. Note the lack of blue flashing lights, meaning that it is used for
non-emergency response work. |
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SV54 BPE This is one of a fleet of Grampian
Police Range Rovers. It is fitted with a turbo
diesel engine and a tiptronic transmission. |
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The rear view of this workhorse. |
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YX53 KME Humberside police introduced Proton Impians
into their fleet from 2003. The Impian is very similar in appearance to
the Persona model, which is also used. |
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YW52 LKK This Volvo V70 is used for patrolling by
traffic police officers. Notice that Humberside police have not adopted
the battenburg paint scheme (along with a handful of other forces,
including Durham) |
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The rear view of the Volvo. It has a diesel engine,
which is inkeeping with Humberside's mission of running only LPG or diesel
vehicles. It may also be one of the last Volvos as Humberside considers
moving to an all-Proton fleet. |
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S764 MKH A Humberside Ford Transit, fitted with only
two rotating beacons. |
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AU53 GCX This is a Norfolk Constabulary Ford Focus,
with high-visibility rear and sparse livery on the rest of the bodywork.
Inset: the front. |
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X48 XNG This Norfolk Ford Escort has the same minimal
livery as the Focus. It is also fitted with a smaller light bar, and
carries force advertising on the bonnet. |
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The rear and nearside. |
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AO02 OHY is a Norfolk Ford Galaxy people carrier. Its
livery is very different to the above cars. It carries full battenburg
markings, blue repeater lights on the front grille and the force website
address at the foot of the door sills. Also notice the directional white
spot lamp of the roof. |
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The rear view. The Galaxy has heavily tinted glass on
the rear window and rearmost side windows. |
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R821 EEX This dated livery belongs to a Norfolk police
Vauxhall Astra. Note the rear 'police' sign and the large pennant in the
rear screen. |
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Y283 WVV This North Yorkshire Police Vauxhall Astra
gets a special award for one of the worst liveries on a UK emergency
vehicle. It is a one-off sponsored vehicle which is used for non-urgent
work. On the rear of the vehicle is an advert for a carpet company, with
the tag line "Pulling the rug on crime"! |
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YJ54 VLD A far more sensible NYP Ford Focus, carrying
the non-emergency telephone number of the front wings, and Crimestoppers
number on the rear. |
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YJ04 CEF An overhead look at a NYP collision
investigation Mercedes van. It does not have any roof markings, and only a
double rotating blue light on the roof. Blue strobes are also drilled into
the reverse light and headlight clusters. |
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YJ04 CFK A double overhead look at a North Yorks. Volvo
V70 which is used for road policing. It has an oval lightbar and
rear-facing, roof-mounted ANPR (automatic number plate recognition)
camera. |
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H467
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is a preserved Rover 827. This car is powered by a 2.7 litre Honda V6
engine driving the front wheels. |
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The rear view. This model of Rover saw service with
many police forces throughout the late 1980's and early 1990's. |
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W42
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is a Ford Escort van used by the dog section of Lincolnshire Police. |
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R364
KFL
is a Ford Explorer four wheel drive used by Wiltshire Constabulary. This
vehicle carries a rather faded version of the force's old livery. It is
equipped with a large telescopic pole which comes out of the roof to
provide lighting at an incident. |
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We
now have a Suzuki GSX R motorbike. Although it carries police markings, it
is not equipped with blue lights. |
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MK04
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is another Mercedes Benz E-class demonstrator. |
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Here
we have a Ford Focus estate designed to be used for the carrying of police
dogs. Notice how on this demonstrator vehicle the side windows are silvered
out in the rear of the car to hide the dog cages. It also has a roof
mounted air vent for the dogs. |
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We
now have a Ford Galaxy people carrier in police markings. |
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This
five door Ford Fiesta is used by Hampshire Police. |
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Here we have another Ford Focus estate. This model does
not have the rear fitted dog cages as seen above. It is operated by the
Northern Constabulary. |
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This
Ford Transit Connect is also a police dog unit demonstrator. It is unusually
fitted with only one blue rotating bacon on the roof. It has access to the
dog caged from either the rear doors or the side sliding doors. |
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This is another demonstrator form Ford, except this
time a Mondeo estate. |
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