Mickwhitt 4,605 #1 Posted April 11 BBC News - Rotherham theft suspect snared after car, foot and bike chase https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68791541 This is an ex colleague of mine, I saw a similar piece recently of a horse pursuit in America, thought you'd like to see how we do it. Mick 7 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickwhitt 4,605 #2 Posted April 12 The guy was driving a stolen vehicle and was wanted in respect of another £90,000 theft. The pursuit of the vehicle lasted quite a bit longer than shown, I think my buddy did an amazing job. Apparently our criminal gangs over here have now started to deliberately ram police vehicles. They pull over when the blue lights come on and then reverse into the police car several times before driving off. They have learned that modern cars either shut down after a collision or all the air bags fire leaving a car undrivable. So much for modern technology, my first Peugeot patrol car still had window winder handles and air bags were way in the future. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mickwhitt 4,605 #3 Posted April 12 We viewed this video on our police scrutiny panel last night. One of the lady members asked if the officer really needed to shout quite so much at the suspect 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky-(Admin) 21,314 #4 Posted April 12 I absolutely laughed my butt off when the officer says “Cheers” after he sets off on the bike 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 55,156 #5 Posted April 12 Score one for the good guys 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 12,201 #6 Posted April 12 Boy, that is one fit constable! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynnmor 7,303 #7 Posted April 13 I couldn't get the video to load and run so I Googled "Rotherham theft suspect snared after car" and found it that way. Great "Dumbest Criminals" video. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
