My day with the Motorway Police 

Part 4

Little more cruising and coming back through Oldham on the hard shoulder a gentleman is running back to his car complete with caravan so we stopped and discovered he was on the hard shoulder because he had run back to see if his mate was still following him. It gets better now, he could have been booked for being a pedestrian on the hard shoulder, no tail lights on the caravan, registration on caravan different to the one on the car. But he managed to top all that by not being insured to drive the car, he was driving it because his boss told him to. He was actually working for a circus and it looked as if all the clowns had come to town on the same day. It took a full hour from seeing him running to getting the vehicle and caravan towed away.

On the whole it was a most informative day not to mention entertaining for some of the excuses people came up with as to why they shouldn’t be booked. I think what I get from this more than anything else is we need more police, throughout the whole day we were a very visible presence and with those few exceptions the more we were seen the more people didn’t break the law, and if the police ever want someone to ride around in a marked police car just as deterrent I’ve already volunteered. There is just no comparison whatsoever in the actions of drivers I see from my Green School of Motoring car and what I saw from a marked police car.