Category: POLICE

T691 OEW is a Durham Ford Focus.

T260 AFT is a Durham Vauxhall Astra.

P183 CFL is a Ford Galaxy people carrier converted into an Accident Investigation Unit.

R448 JTN is a Land Rover 100 Accident Investigation Unit.

This is a Volvo 850 T5 speeding past with its lights and siren on. This type of Volvo is a very fast and versatile machine.

This is a very special view of the arrangement of lights on top of a BMW police car. They form a ‘V’ shape and because of this coloured light can be seen from whichever direction you are looking at it.

A Honda Blackbird police bike (capable of 200mph+) with a side car? It must be for show only.

A West Yorkshire Police Honda Blackbird.

A Metropolitan Police bike out of active service.

This is a Northumbria police outrider escorting the runners of the Great North Run, circa 1988.

Here is another police outrider escorting a cycle race in the late 1980s (force unknown).

Three more Northumbria police motorcycles.

A BMW police bike belonging to Northumbria police.

Here is a North Yorkshire crime prevention trailer

This a good close up of a police motorcyclist’s view. At the bottom left of the picture is the radio, and on top of the dashboard is the speed detector readout.

A very exciting time during a police chase! From left to right, a Ford Fiesta Panda car, the target vehicle, a Volvo traffic car. Other police vehicles are off camera. The target car crashed while trying to negotiate the roundabout.

A Vauxhall Corsa P354 WBB and a Ford Escort R282 EES from Durham Constabulary.

P452 TUY is a Vauxhall Monterey in Cumbria

P753 LOY The Honda Blackbird combines staggering speed and handling. It’s top speed is actually greater than a police helicopter!



The front view.

A Northumbria Police Ford Transit and a serious crime trailer at a murder scene. Note the ‘slide-up’ first floor and the tall aerial on top.

Here is a LDV with optional riot shield, again from Northumbria police.

P339 WTN is a Land Rover, used in the Teesdale and Weardale areas by Durham Constabulary.

A Ford Mondeo saloon, viewed from above as a helicopter would. You can clearly identify each car by it’s call sign on the roof.

L65 MUB is a North Yorkshire Peugeot 309.

This Peugeot 306 is photographed in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

R677 FUA is a Peugeot Van, used by North Yorkshire Police in Pately Bridge.

R691 FUA is a Rover 200 seen in Leyburn, North Yorkshire.

A rather rusty Vauxhall Corsa taken in Gateshead.

J397 MCU is a Suzuki SJ413, used in the rural areas of County Durham

A short wheel base Ford Maverick from Northumbria.