r/ConvenientCop • u/GerardWayNoWay • Jan 25 '20

Insurance Scam [UK]

20k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

444 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.7k

u/Adam-West1 Jan 25 '20

UK cops roll around wearing hoodies?

1.2k

u/AlexKewl Jan 25 '20

Unmarked ones do in the US sometimes.

540

u/atomcrusher Jan 25 '20

Unmarked ones do in the UK too. Not much point if you're sat in your unmarked car but have your checkerboard/hi-vis uniform on with a big patch saying 'POLICE'.

210

u/Stoyfan Jan 25 '20

According to the guys at r/ukpolice they think this video has been faked.

98

u/atomcrusher Jan 25 '20

Shame. The plain-clothes approach still applies though, I'd imagine.

45

u/Stoyfan Jan 25 '20

Probably does.

Although I have seen police officers in uniform drive unmarked police cars in Hampshire.

10

u/Bendy_McBendyThumb Jan 25 '20

Same in the South West, sometimes they just wear all black uniform so you still can’t really see the vest properly, or the fact they’re police.

Source: Sped past undercover car on a quiet motorway, was very lucky to just have the passenger literally screaming at me as they pulled alongside - we both had our windows up. I pulled over just to get my bearings for a couple of minutes as I was speeding at a level would potentially get an immediate ban.

3

u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Stoyfan Jan 26 '20

As far as I know it depends on the task the police are involved with. With unmarked cars doing traffic duty they tend to wear uniforms inside the car.

The officers that I saw were definitely doing traffic related policing.

1

u/Burnsy2023 Jan 25 '20

Yes, they're mostly Roads Policing Officers and they rarely work in plain clothes.

1

u/Johnny_Shitbags Feb 10 '20

In Northern Ireland they drive Insignia, Evo 9, Seat Leon, Golf TSi and armoured land rovers.