Unmarked Police Cars FYI (just so ya know)

[ArmaghMan]

Silver Mk 5 Golf R32 3 door opperates out of Mahon in Portadown.
Blue Passat W8 4motion (old shape)also in the Craigavon /Portadown Area

[x12yhp]

I thought that the pistonheads line was.... speed camera's bad..... coppers on the road good.... or does that only hold true until it actually there are in fact coppers on the road

[buzzsaw]

ArmaghMan said:

Silver Mk 5 Golf R32 3 door opperates out of Mahon in Portadown.
Blue Passat W8 4motion (old shape)also in the Craigavon /Portadown Area

I've seen the Passat about.

Edited by buzzsaw on Monday 17th August 12:44

[stevieturbo]

Hardly much point in putting lists up.

They really do drive everything these days.

[Benzini]

exactly they're in RS focus's in belfast, W12's in derry, and choppers now! just no getting away!

[KillerJim]

I think a fair number of normal stops are simply because people don`t look out any rear view mirror or have any ability to spot car's that are acting like the police.

I`ve been tailed by the cops a few times in unmarked car's.. Recently (being able to do 70mph up a sliproad onto a motorway) I joined into a group of car's in the "slow" lane and then moved out into the other lane.. The police were unmarked abuot 6 car's behind, pretty obvious once I moved into the fast lane and they went into their "stealth" follow me mode... so I just kept to ~70mph (as I always do )

J

[TheStig89]

ArmaghMan said:

Silver Mk 5 Golf R32 3 door opperates out of Mahon in Portadown.
Blue Passat W8 4motion (old shape)also in the Craigavon /Portadown Area

is that passat an estate? if so ive seen it before too, on the way home from banbridge

they do drive alot of cars theres a Mk 4 R32 in the newry station along with a Focus ST and some others

[Decky_Q]

stig89 are you livin around newry? have been pulled by the r32 in warrenpoint on nonsense and the focus was a few cars behind.

[TheStig89]

yea i actually live in warrenpoint, the focus ST caught me a few years ago for speeding and ive seen the R32 being driven rather sneakily! they try to get other cars to race because its an R32 lol

[johnny bravo]

They are not only touring round in unmarked cars but hiding in telephone boxes! was coming out of Belfast on the Malone Road the other night and saw a copper in the box near the Stranmillis junction pointing a radar gun up the road towards town, his mate was hiding in the hedge not far away. He was pretending to make a call while trapping some unfortunate at the same time. Pretty mean, what?

[PapaHett]

I tend to be weary of anything with an EZ or similar reg.. Until I can make out what it is..

[73driver]

Silver ST220 in Doagh on Fri. Also seen the Focus ST on the A1.
Other recent ones were, R32 & W8 Passat estate & saloon.
Actually remember them driving a 2.8 Capri years ago. Cool or what!!!

[buzzsaw]

73driver said:

Silver ST220 in Doagh on Fri. Also seen the Focus ST on the A1.
Other recent ones were, R32 & W8 Passat estate & saloon.
Actually remember them driving a 2.8 Capri years ago. Cool or what!!!

Was the ST220 an estate? Spotted that one on the M1 the other day.

[73driver]

Na it was a saloon, but anytime i see an ST220 i assume its the law!!

[bobd]

Cumbrian police always seemed to have some tasty in your face stealth - EVO9, STI8, T4 Saloon, and an unmarked Fireblade or two.
Stranraer to Dumfries also involves Mercs Passat and BMW 5's silver and stealth black if your out that way.
Who thought of green uniforms anyway- blend in with the hedges too easy.

[Francy555]

In the Omagh area any large Saloon car with an EZ plate gets a very wide berth from me until i go through the following procedure,

Is the car spotlessly clean?
Has the car extra ariels?
Has the car a towbar?
Can you make out a dealer sticker in the rear window?
Is there a dealer name or number on the registration plate?
Has the car got semi tinted windows?
Can you see any semi hidden lights in the rear window?

Only once a car has passed these checks will i attempt to overtake or do anthing which may be described as "making progress"

Current favourites around Omagh are

MK1 Ford Focus both 5 door in red and navy both belfast regs
English X reg Nissan Primera (Sneaky b*****ds)
Various Silver Vectra's all *EZ ****
Various blue (and one red) Mondeos all *EZ ****
R32 Golf (traffic branch)
Citroen Berlingo Van in white (Not Joking) belfast reg
VW passat new shape estate in sky blue
2 X silver/grey latest shape Astra's

Plus various marked cars all usually vectras!

Once you get to know these cars you can spot them a mile off, by the way they are being driven! I've been followed in the impreza once by the berlingo, gave it 5 repeats of the hazards and they turned back towards omagh at the next junction, i guess annoyed that i was driving normally and had been aware of their presence for quite some time!

[Decky_Q]

Add a new silver skoda saloon plate EEZ to the list in Warrenpoint/Newry.

Hope we dont end up getting done for gathering info of use to terrorists lol

[the jollyrodger]

johnny bravo said:

They are not only touring round in unmarked cars but hiding in telephone boxes! was coming out of Belfast on the Malone Road the other night and saw a copper in the box near the Stranmillis junction pointing a radar gun up the road towards town, his mate was hiding in the hedge not far away. He was pretending to make a call while trapping some unfortunate at the same time. Pretty mean, what?

i may be wrong,but i thought they had to be in view of the motorist to be legal?

[Decky_Q]

news to me, have seen them standing against corners and walls to steady the gun plenty of times, this wouldnt be in plain sight imo.

[PapaHett]

Francy555 said:

Has the car got semi tinted windows?

You can see an 'oily' finish to the windows; I presume its the glass that they have in (strengthened?).

Francy555 said:

Current favourites around Omagh are

MK1 Ford Focus both 5 door in red and navy both belfast regs
English X reg Nissan Primera (Sneaky b*****ds)
Various Silver Vectra's all *EZ ****
Various blue (and one red) Mondeos all *EZ ****
R32 Golf (traffic branch)
Citroen Berlingo Van in white (Not Joking) belfast reg
VW passat new shape estate in sky blue
2 X silver/grey latest shape Astra's

I haven't seen many of them around the town; especially the berlingo.. Ha. Must be on the lookout.

They've one of the big Passats marked up too, there's some noise of them!