My day as an Observer with our local Traffic Police.

Part 1

Arrived at Chadderton Police Traffic Headquarters for 7am and was quickly ushered into Simon’s BMW 330d.  where, with lights and sirens we headed for an incident on the motorway. Not nice so we’ll skip over that.

From there we went towards Stockport and saw a driver without seat belt. Followed him off the motorway and by that time he had put on his seat belt, he was invited into the back of the police car.  When asked if he knew why he’s been stopped he replied, “For using my mobile” 

When the car was checked on the ANPR the driver showed up as having previous convictions for using a mobile. But since he wasn’t actually seen using it he was only booked for the seat belt offence.

As we finished with the seat belt a call came through about 20 miles away and so the next thing we know we’re flying along the motorway with lights and sirens at about 110mph. Ten miles further on the call was cancelled. So back down to about 60mph.