Originally Posted by The Knife
Hmmm. Say what you like about the cops, but anyone with a Class One licence is unlikely to wrap a car because he "doesn't know what he's doing". These guys are way superior drivers to probably 99.9% of drivers on the road - if you are in the 0.1% that are better than them, I bow before you!!!
Very true. I love how everyone into performance cars thinks they are the bollox and that the police don't know shit about driving. Yeah true, half the "normal beat" cops who drive the diesel astra's etc don't know how to handle performncae cars and yes you will probably beat them. But the pro "police drivers" are among the best drivers in the country, as The Knife said. I know this as a close family friend is a police pursuit driver. He spent months in training for it, and thats after
years of service as a "regular" police driver (to which they are pretty well trained. His knowledge and understanding of how to drive fast and handle performance cars and his abilty to do things in cars is second to none and very reminiscent of how race car drivers think and act.
So very unlikely that the driver of this Saff will wrap it round a tree and less likely to be out driven by 99% of the people on here, and 99% of the people on the road in general.
And back to the entrapment thing -

So how jsut cos it is a Saff Cos does it constitute "entrapment"????? Do you actually know what entrapment is? Tell why if they have an undercover Saff it is entrapment, but an undercover Volvo T5 isn't? Is it because you are more likely to try and race this Saff rather than the T5? Well that isn't entrapment, thats you being a twat
Do you actually know what entrapment is? Entrapment is, for example, a cop going undercover as a dealer and setting up a deal with someone, actually supplying them the drugs so it is in the buyers possesion after having paid for it, then trying to nick them. THAT is entrapment.
Now it would be entrapment if this Saff Cos driver went out all day baiting boy racers etc for races then nicking em when the break the speed limit or drive dangerously. But the likely hood of that happening is slim. Nigh on anorexic
In most likly ness what will happen is it will cruise about and nick peep who try and race it, and might well be used for rapid response.
Anther reason the police use popular performance cars like these and the Evo's/Buru's etc is to try and connect with the performance car fraternity, in the hope of gaining respect, so that they might be able to enlighten some of you. You will probably laff and tell yourself "I ain't gonna be impressed with a copper jsut cos he drives the same car as me" but in practice it does work. underneath, all your coppers are jsut regular people. They ain't "out to get YOU", thats orders from "THE MAN". THE MAN is the enemy, not the copper following his orders. I guarantee you if you would spend the time actually talking to these officers, they will tell you and you will realise that they don['t want to nick you at all. Cos they don't want to have to chase you. Most pursuit drivers really don't want to chase people cos it puts them at risk, the public at risk and the person they are chasing at risk. They would rather educate you so you don't drive like a WANKER trying to race everything with more than 40bhp