Category: Police (General)

N317 NTN is A Durham Constabulary Ford Escort Van.

This is a Honda Goldwing motorbike.

A general view of police motorbikes from various forces.

A Volvo V70 T-5 in normal Durham markings, featuring the V arrangement of the roof lights. Apparently the blue stripes above the headlights serve no purpose at all!

M917 GJU is a Ford Transit, decked out in checker markings of North Yorkshire



The rear view of the same Transit.

Now this is a rare sight; two police scrambler bikes. The bikes seem to be unmarked, but the riders have luminous vests with ‘police’ written on. They are obviously used off road to patrol large hilly, rocky areas, clamp down on off-road motor-biking and searching for burnt out cars.

This is an armoured Range Rover armed police car, belonging to North Yorkshire Police. It is semi-covert, with clear glass to the roof-mounted blue flashing light, and lights and siren on the front semi-hidden.



The rear view of the same car. This is no longer used by the police and this is why it is shown here.

Below is an off-road police scrambler motorbike alongside its road-going equivalent.

Here is a display trailer, used by the road policing group to promote better driving.



Another such trailer.

A Ford police prisoner transportation truck from North Yorkshire.



The rear view.

Here we have an Iveco van with roof storage ability. Observe the extra blue flashing lights mounted high on the front of the roof.

N308 NTN is a Vauxhall Cavalier and a R434 JTN is a Peugeot 306 from a selection of training vehicles, used on public roads. They are minimally marked with small blue lights on the front, the Durham crest to the rear of each side, and a small sign on the back stating it is being used for training purposes

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