kevinrichardeaton

the only country I know of that allows utilities workers to have emergency lights is Germany where the railways,electric & water all have a small number of bluelight equiped units certainly in the UK police,fire,ambulance,eod,coastguard are the only ones (i know of) http://www.flickr.com/photos/unknownisland/sets/72157594410124621/with/4606886617/

not seen the vehicles first hand yet but will try and take some pics when I do , the armed units are also out patroling now also in some very nice Mercs

Found this on Flickr and thought I'd share it

funny you should ask British Transport Police are in the process of setting up a 100 man armed suport unit, so will have there own tactical team these guys won't carry as only the driver s a police officer (yellow vest) the guys in orange are all civilian engineers who will work alongside the police, fire rescue and ambulance staff after 7/7 and the inquiry a few new units were setup to deal with mass casulty events in and around london London Fire Brigade have USAR - Urban Search & Rescue London Ambulance have HART - Hazardous Area Response Team Met,City & BTP have under various names a CBRN response capibility and in the mets case the only non military EOD team in the country this unit has been around in one form or another for years, perviously it was staffed totally by civilians with no Blue light authority, they got round this and the law by assigning a police driver and repainting the vehicles with the word police covereing the section of the legislation for "police purposes"

I thought I'd read that the unit had been disbanded just goes to show that you shouldn't believe everything you read on a totally unrelated note if anyone knows where I can get one of them MTA ESU patches I'll love you forever

been away for a while but thought I'd pop back and share this with you

its like with the police in london, they have started moving more towards silver/grey as they get a higher resale price for them, the older white onces went for a cheep price because they look like police cars (in the eyes of the public a vauxall thats white is an ex police car no matter what)

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/P...spected_Robbers

as a kid I had a cat , one night someone thought it was be "fun" to tie a firework to his back legs and light it, he turned up with serious burns and we couldn't get him to come into the house he went missing the next morning and I never found out what happned to him- i can see why your ASPCA guys are all tooled up

ANPR is in widescale use in the UK most police cars have it its also linked into the Police national computer so if theres no tax,licence, driver is disqualifed or on another database it pings up on the screen I think i'm right in saying certain areas have CCTV linked inot the database

I don't remember which forum it was, but I've seen this before. The guy who posted it, claimed it was owned by USSS as part of the Presidental security convoy.

most cars in the Met are crewed 2 up, armed response are all 3 up and then you have the vans which can be anything from single crewed for prisoner transport right up to a TSG with 8(I think) of the biggest uglyest scarists riot control experts on board

you'd be amased how many people you see with phone pinned to ear while driving, there have been a couple of high profile deaths related to it and people still don't seem to care

http://www.fifthalarm.net/nys-stuff.html hope they're of use to you I came across them on google looking for something else

will you stop letting facts & common sense get in the way of bad journalism