Seen on Police Interceptors the other day. (Incident where some eejit pulls out in front of the Beamer, on an empty road and the Beamer doing it's lights and noisy thing.)

Not seen a marked police car with a towbar before. Given the reluctance to damage the car, hence not towing things out of the way of other motorists, seems a strange thing to have.

Open to suggestions.

Bike carrier so the PCSO's (anag; COPS) can get their bikes delivered when they get too fat and lazy :think:

for towing one of those mobile police stations or

car crime roadshow thingies they have at B and Q

sometimes?

That as in the above post., practicality.

and then there is the leisure use. 'Pikey Police'.

george

Probably for a trailer full of pom-poms

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2288329/Community-slams-police-hanging-knitted-pom-poms-trees-help-reduce-fear-crime.html

I've seen quite a few motorway patrol X5s and V70s with towbars. Come to think of it, I can't think why.

Unless it's provided free by the manufacturer to advertise how flexible a 'lifestyle' vehicle they can be!

isn't there a Fixed Penalty for littering?

My mission now is to find a nice young police officer towing something suitably large/heavy.

I will ask nicely if he has Grandad rights on his licence or has passed the trailer test.

george

Yeah, pull him over! Show him who's boss

George, If it has a trailer on the back the driver will have had to sit a Police trailer course. Grandad rights are not good enough. Back in the day we had trailer courses, off road courses, prison van courses, personnel carrier courses, VIP courses, if it had wheels there was a course for it, except golf and hostess trolleys. (Well, HQ might have had those )

Ye, i will still ask.

This being Scotland and some of the driving training and practices often being a little suspect.

Like last week and me giving way while sitting at the Crossing while towing a trailer, was red, turned green, but up the road someone was already moving.

& another Truck towing a trailer was coming down overtaking parked cars beyond the jig zags which had cars perked on them, and then the Police car (on its way to collect the munchies maybe), overtaking me in a LWB and car transporter, having not seen the oncoming.

Madam just looked angry when i put down the window and asked why she was overtaking on a crossing.

She asked why are you stopped at green at a crossing.

i pointed up the road and she reversed. Problem being traffic was now behind and reversing seemed a problem.

I do not really care what they do, was being non serious.,

george

We had a volvo police demo car in at work a while back and that had a towbar fitted but never seen any of west yorkshire patrol cars fitted with towbars, they usually just have the towing hook screwed in the back

All our 4x4 shoguns have tow bars fitted, never use them though.

So the traffic car can tow broken down or damaged vehicles off the carriage way.

I'll worry more when they fit shotgun / rifle racks.

I've seen police 'marksmen' training and they were feckin terrible.

So the traffic car can tow broken down or damaged vehicles off the carriage way.

+1

So the traffic car can tow broken down or damaged vehicles off the carriage way.

Beat me to it. I was towed off the M32 by a police range rover after some nice woman in a Saab couldn't bothered to look where she was going, or brake! They only dragged to the nearest layby though.

Multi use, sometimes handy for that Snatch Recovery when the finest get it wrong.

Sign can often be read as written.

Multi use, sometimes handy for that Snatch Recovery when the finest get it wrong.

Sign can often be read as written.

Ha ha, the bottom two are cumbria police. The Volvo was during pursuit training and the instructor 'got it wrong' and wrote the Volvo off and the landrover was during the 2009 floods after a member of the public advised the bobby not to go through it and they replied, it's ok, I'll get through in this! Famous last words! or thats what i was told anyway. I have the Landy on my Facebook.

So the traffic car can tow broken down or damaged vehicles off the carriage way.

That's what I'd tentatively thought. Maybe it's just those on the M2/20/25/26 area that don't know what it's for. Seems the policy round here is to leave it alone, even if it is blocking two lanes and causing a five mile tailback.

Towbar on the back - it could be in case said BMW had to go more than 100 miles in a day . As for the courses for anything , from my chats with Beat cops locally, I always suspected that Inspectors (and above ) were seen by lower ranks to have "Great grand dad rights" on golf trollies ,and it was said that best place for them was using said transport . Our beat SGT was wont to say more at residents association committee meetings . He had this vision of an "ideas cupboard" , which was opened each month by the area Supt .The one that fell out was that adopted for the next month . be it sane or otherwise .

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Towbar on the back - it could be in case said BMW had to go more than 100 miles in a day . As for the courses for anything , from my chats with Beat cops locally, I always suspected that Inspectors (and above ) were seen by lower ranks to have "Great grand dad rights" on golf trollies ,and it was said that best place for them was using said transport . Our beat SGT was wont to say more at residents association committee meetings . He had this vision of an "ideas cupboard" , which was opened each month by the area Supt .The one that fell out was that adopted for the next month . be it sane or otherwise .

Eh!?

Eh!?

+1 on that.

WTF !!!! What has going more than 100 miles and idea cupboards got to do with cop cars with tow bars.

I understood every word of that, but then its a generation thing, (& i speak/write the same language)

listen or read, try to make sense as topics drift and do not always try being smart and taking the pith out of the elderly.

george