Rashers wrote:

Driving home from the Mother-in-Laws last Saturday night along the A11 towards Norwich when I became aware of a Police Van coming up fast behind me without blues and twos. The road is a dual carriageway (yep, still a bit of a novelty for us older Norfolk people) and the driver quite skilfully blocked me in against a slower vehicle. My wife said that it was quite obvious, the Officer in the passenger seat was doing a PNC check on my truck. Took a few seconds and once they realised that it hadn't been reported stollen, they accelerated past. I was most impressed with that. Nice to think they are looking out for nicked Defenders.

I remember Swine and Small said that he had been stopped early one morning (can't remember whether that was Norfolk or another force) checking up. Any one else had any positive experiences with your local Police taking an active interest in your truck?

Rashers wrote:

Well Procta, that has had me puzzled also. We were running towards a convenient lay-by and I wondered why I hadn't been escorted in for a chat. Maybe it was my Black Labrador peering out of the window at them Don't suppose there are many crooks who take their dog to steal a Defender?

Out of interest Pilgrimmick, what would you want from good policing (with the resources that they have at present)?

If the Police carried out a stop and search policy on every Defender, I think that would be a good time to sell!

Rashers wrote:

Well Procta, that has had me puzzled also. We were running towards a convenient lay-by and I wondered why I hadn't been escorted in for a chat. Maybe it was my Black Labrador peering out of the window at them Don't suppose there are many crooks who take their dog to steal a Defender?

Out of interest Pilgrimmick, what would you want from good policing (with the resources that they have at present)?

If the Police carried out a stop and search policy on every Defender, I think that would be a good time to sell!

Likeomg wrote:

Rashers wrote:

Well Procta, that has had me puzzled also. We were running towards a convenient lay-by and I wondered why I hadn't been escorted in for a chat. Maybe it was my Black Labrador peering out of the window at them Don't suppose there are many crooks who take their dog to steal a Defender?

Out of interest Pilgrimmick, what would you want from good policing (with the resources that they have at present)?

If the Police carried out a stop and search policy on every Defender, I think that would be a good time to sell!

Well when we had 2 gentlemen rake around our farm, attempt to start one of the old series we have lying around they brought 2 dogs...

2nd time in 3 months we've had visitors, we did go a bit OTT with monitored security lately so hopefully should be the end of it.

That's got to be someone very local to you, that's doing the sniffing about there. It was two that were very local to me that stole mine. Also where it was found too, which was practically 2 miles away, you could even say around the corner from me. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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ARC99 wrote:

Three times in 2 miles, middle of a summer night on a stretch of road covered by two Forces, North Yorkshire and Cleveland.
They had cars laid up at each of three roundabouts, linked by back to back radio and I was stopped at each.
Now some may scream harassment all I say is that they were doing the job that they were being paid to do but a little bit of common sense wouldn't have gone a miss by the first relay details of the vehicle to the others but as I have at one time or another trained three out of the six officers I suspect the joke was on me.