watching police interceptors the other day from 2012,it showed a rolling roadblock by a number of interceptors on the M1,then a silver vauxhall came steaming through on the hard shoulder passing the roadblock and followed by a number of other police cars,further up they managed to stop the vauxhall [with i think they call it a t pack]then it turns out that it was a training exercise for a female police interceptor,did not matter about the massive jam that had built up behind them from drivers held up by said rolling roadblock, how many miles back did that jam go nobody knows,what gives the police the right to hold up drivers [hgv and cars alike]just so they can train one of their officers,it only lasted a few minutes but every driver knows how quickly jams can build up in a few minutes on motorways,they should not be allowed to use public roads and disrupt other drivers trying to do their jobs,i know they need to train but there are places they can do that kind of training,for example they could use millbrook testing ground in bedfordshire which is not far from the M1,as the old saying goes they are a law unto themselves
Ok so they don’t practice and when they need to actually do the manuver nobody knows how to there’s a difference between the classroom and putting it into practice in the real world
Real world training, you can’t whack it. Beats any staged track training hands down.
They do it alot around the m27, m3 a load of marked volvos chasing one off there silver octavias. I see your point it’s a bit off a ■■■■ off when your trying to get somewhere and they’re playing cops and robbers. However there’s no better way I suppose for them to train other than with real traffic on real roads, I’ve seen them preform a t-pack in real life and its the best way for them to bring a car to a halt and generally results in little damage to the car there stopping either. So if my car ever gets pinched and I get it back in one piece there games will be worth.
they use to do it on the M5 normally on a Wednesday between Exeter and the Tiverton junction, don’t know if they still do ain’t been down that way on a Wednesday for a while, they have to train, so it holds a few people up for a couple of minutes no big deal really. 
I’m not sure there’s any real wider benefit to the public from them chasing cars full stop.
I think they are “trying to stop them” as opposed to chasing?
wildfire:
they use to do it on the M5 normally on a Wednesday between Exeter and the Tiverton junction, don’t know if they still do ain’t been down that way on a Wednesday for a while, they have to train, so it holds a few people up for a couple of minutes no big deal really.
i suppose if you are at the front of the queue it is quite interesting
truckman20:
wildfire:
they use to do it on the M5 normally on a Wednesday between Exeter and the Tiverton junction, don’t know if they still do ain’t been down that way on a Wednesday for a while, they have to train, so it holds a few people up for a couple of minutes no big deal really.i suppose if you are at the front of the queue it is quite interesting
I bet the novelty would wear of very quickly if you needed a ■■■.
I bet the novelty would wear of very quickly if you needed a ■■■.
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they didn’t catch me anyway, I was the only one hiding in the middle lane,
postby Trukkertone » Sun Aug 18, 2013 8:43 am
they didn’t catch me anyway, I was the only one hiding in the middle lane,
They’ll get you now for hogging the middle lane 
Own Account Driver:
I’m not sure there’s any real wider benefit to the public from them chasing cars full stop.
Apart from catching the armed bank robbers last year on the M1 , with no casualties absolutely none.
Training is a necessary evil, and in the grand scheme of things you lose more time behind Toscos and other trucks doing 50 mph flat out over an average month than you ever would on the police training.
i’m sure you’d appreciate their training if they were chasing your stolen car 
What happens if a hero trucker rams the perp off the road to help the coppers out? Be a few red faces then… 
Own Account Driver:
truckman20:
wildfire:
they use to do it on the M5 normally on a Wednesday between Exeter and the Tiverton junction, don’t know if they still do ain’t been down that way on a Wednesday for a while, they have to train, so it holds a few people up for a couple of minutes no big deal really.i suppose if you are at the front of the queue it is quite interesting
I bet the novelty would wear of very quickly if you needed a ■■■.
like it LOL
Silver_Surfer:
What happens if a hero trucker rams the perp off the road to help the coppers out? Be a few red faces then…
My thoughts exactly, or even just blocks them - don’t have to ram everyone you know
Saw one on a75 few years back,driver was being bit over ‘enthusiastic’,passed them parked in layby bit further on,judging by the body language,driver was getting bit of a bollocking from blokes in the back!
Could always do what they did at Appleby fair?Use a school bus.full of kids lol to block an escaping car thief in an x6!
lynchy:
Saw one on a75 few years back,driver was being bit over ‘enthusiastic’,passed them parked in layby bit further on,judging by the body language,driver was getting bit of a bollocking from blokes in the back!
Could always do what they did at Appleby fair?Use a school bus.full of kids lol to block an escaping car thief in an x6!
How often did they train for that maneuver?
I remember coming off the M1 and joining the M25 anti-clockwise in the early hours of the morning many years back. Noticed a few cop cars parked on the slip road and hard shoulder on the way then noticed lots of blue lights in the mirrors approaching from behind chasing a rather old knackered Renault Clio van. It was almost comical as it chugged past me doing about 70-80mph and left at the next junction further up, going around the roundabout, rejoining the motorway on the opposite side with half a dozen coppers in high performance cars all sitting behind him, blue lights going.
I watched them disappear behind me but a few minutes later a mate travelling clockwise phoned me and said that some young fella driving a Clio had been rammed off the road in front of him by the cops 