Nice to see someone who has been on the front line, right in the hot seat being in charge, instead of a clue less bean counter who is only there as it might help his promotion!! Well done Mick, and another great Vid Ben...
I’ve had a shit experience with the police where I live corrupt force Lancaster police I’ve watched the way these officers have dealt with people on tv and I think what a difference in mannorisms actually doing their jobs and not just pushing for promotion and statistics
Love this, great video and awesome to see Nick is chief inspector now. Would be brilliant to see this again with different cars and different faces from the TV show
Great video Ben and a great car! Mick’s done really well for himself since the old Traffic Cop days, good to see. These types of video are really interesting, keep them coming 👍
Remember how good a driver Mick Roffe was on the old traffic cops programme...not many if any out did Mick in a car chase...Good to see Mick has moved up to Chief Inspector now 👏🏻👏🏻 Well done Ben...Another great video m8...👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 P.s still chuckling Ben when u said to Mick "get your stinger out...show us your weapon son"...lol...😂😂😂😂
I heard “Chief Inspector Mick Roffe” and thought “well he’s gone up in the world,hasn’t he?” Great to see a couple of veteran officers chatting about a traffic car.
I was a member of a golf club in the late 90s early 2000s. We had many police officers as members. The normal officers had little to do with the traffic cops. “They’d book their owns mothers!” I hope things have changed.
The fact the force are integrating with your social media presence is significant and welcome. A worthy Chief, Nick should remain your go to for bringing modern Policing to the channel. The saying "once you ain't blue, no more you" seems to be not true in this case. A very welcome addition. Well done Ben. 😎
Excellent presentation, and how all the kit is shoehorned into that boot 😮 Well done guys and your promotion to TCI Mick, now we can see why you got promoted 😂😂 Iain
Good to see you again Mr Roffe. I remember you pulling me on my bike, and you being a very young arrogant young man with little knowledge on sections 163,164 and 165. (I won that case by the way), but I would like to congratulate you on becoming Chief Inspector. I do hope that arrogance has gone. Take care.
Thanks for the review Ben and also nice to see a fellow traffic cops star. I'm starting my new honest car review channel, which also reviews for disabled people.
Decent bit of kit. Drove through Yorkshire yesterday plenty of signs up encouraging motorists to slow down. Beautiful part of the world but the bottom line is enjoy it but get home safe. 90mph down the dales is straight up madness
A couple of questions: 1 How many takes to get that stack of cones out of the boot in one go without them getting stuck lol :) and 2: The stinger. Do you ever get loose "stings" that have been pulled from the main body but come out of the tyre scattered around the area especially after a tyre has shredded after some plonker carried on trying to drive?
Totally!!! "Car's a bit chavvy, and surprise surprise, it's blasting out dnb from your shitbag's ram-raided acquisitions" I just love how honest and candid Ben is on his youtube.@@ozaricblox
Ben have North Yorkshire traffic got the BMW 135i on the fleet due to BMW no longer providing any of the 3.0diesels in the 330 530 & X5 to UK police forces due to oil starvation problems is it all cars with the N54 diesel engine. West Yorkshire have still got 330d"s , while walking my dog at 4ish I've seen 1 today. In Wakefield recently I've seen Leon Cupra estate traffic car unmarked. Noticed the 135i had YJ all west Yorkshire cars start YJ in the registration plate. Ben watching the video you make your ex colleague look small either that or your huge , as usual great video .
He can't say if it modded, hmmm, wonder if they fit a 4 inch decat, uprated intercooler, air intake, higher capacity fuel pumps and then a cheeky hybrid turbo.
Here to educate? I live in North Yorkshire and we have mobile speed vans. These are usually parked in stealth mode and not in accident black spots. A good cash generater for NYP.
Had a 135 for 2.5 yrs, competent little car but it's front wheel drive until it looses grip when the rears come in so it doesn't drive like a RWD biased X-drive 3 or 4 series for instance like the 335D X-drive I had previously. As a result it does torque steer quite badly under acceleration which makes it a little less engaging to drive I guess. Benefits from selecting the active damper option from factory as well in terms of cornering as most BMW's do. Biggest gripe for me, as with most BMW's, is the throttle mapping in the different driving modes; be great to make it more linear across the modes and leave economy / performance to the gearbox - otherwise if you use the different modes you have to "learn" the throttle map under your foot. That and the steering wheel is way too chunky 😉
Love to see an older Vectra C traffic car and this motor head to head on a simulated response on a track, I bet the 135 would run rings around the old Vectras.
A few years ago now but had the pleasure of sitting in a North Yorkshire Subaru Impreza STI traffic car......fair enough it was at the end of the Skipton bypass in the passenger seat getting a bit of a telling off.😬😬
A lot of forces binned off BMW due to issues with I think the oil when the engines were left idling for extended periods of time? Are North Yorkshire not concerned by this or have BMW fixed it in their most recent blue light releases?
My uncle used to have one of them, git rid of it became he said its too unpredictable as the power its trying to put through its wheels makes it a problem. ** his wasnt this new one, his was rwd i believe hence its issues. Awd makes more sense
BMW's I ever owned dead Skippy on the back end 330i and 335i! RWD only The older 135i is a widow maker 🥵. 306 bhp to the 4 wheels x-drive you need particularly with the UK weather and pot like the Grand Canyon and low maintenance.
Police car with double bass setup, sweet. Car does look great compared to our old 80s astra. Would be interesting getting a traffic officers aspects on what cars are the main ones criminals used that gave them a run for their money
2:49 please as if ben doesn't know the answer to that question and that he was going to get that reply ;) He just knew the audience would want that asking!
I thought that bmw had pulled the plug on selling to U.K. police, I’m sure I’d seen it in one of the car magazines, something to do with fire risk or something on those lines and that traffic were going back to Volvos.
Nice, these front ends lift at high speed, I work in recovery and as soon as you see a 1 series it’s guaranteed to be a single vehicle where the driver just lost control
Nice to see an old faithful from police interceptors and a chief inspector now🎉
Nice to see someone who has been on the front line, right in the hot seat being in charge, instead of a clue less bean counter who is only there as it might help his promotion!! Well done Mick, and another great Vid Ben...
they promote anyone thesedays especially lbgt
Jesus he must’ve been promoted rapido 😮😅
I’ve had a shit experience with the police where I live corrupt force Lancaster police I’ve watched the way these officers have dealt with people on tv and I think what a difference in mannorisms actually doing their jobs and not just pushing for promotion and statistics
Mick was always sound and fair on traffic cops, nice to see hes smashed the ranks 😮
great copper
@@joshfrance1428 corrupt copper
hows he corrupt
Wow, Nick's Chief now? I remember watching him as a RCU cop on Traffic Cops and the older Interceptors. Time sure flies
Same here, he's certainly had alot of roles throughout the years!
same here seen both the lads nice to see you two are in great spirits, love the vids and i hope all is well with you both, larger than life lads 🤣🤣
its Mick not Nick 😂
@@hassyg4083 both aint actors that same car was in ingleton before with same fella driving it
@@hassyg4083 im telling you for free that inspector aint a actor they were sat monitoring traffic for bikers before in the exact same reg car
I loved seeing Mick on the old traffic cops! Great to see that he’s still in the police
Great to see Mick has progressed his career. Use to watch him and Gary Panther as PC’s on Traffic Cops a good few years ago. Well done Mick
Excellent video.
Great to see Mick still going and how well he has done.
And the banter between the two of you
Love this, great video and awesome to see Nick is chief inspector now. Would be brilliant to see this again with different cars and different faces from the TV show
Great video Ben and a great car! Mick’s done really well for himself since the old Traffic Cop days, good to see. These types of video are really interesting, keep them coming 👍
Mr Pearson this is a fantastic video, and lovely to see the contribution from North Yorkshire Police. Gentlemen thank you both.
Remember how good a driver Mick Roffe was on the old traffic cops programme...not many if any out did Mick in a car chase...Good to see Mick has moved up to Chief Inspector now 👏🏻👏🏻 Well done Ben...Another great video m8...👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 P.s still chuckling Ben when u said to Mick "get your stinger out...show us your weapon son"...lol...😂😂😂😂
Love the use of the official policeman’s arm-fold and vest grab poses, this bloke remembered his training well.
I heard “Chief Inspector Mick Roffe” and thought “well he’s gone up in the world,hasn’t he?” Great to see a couple of veteran officers chatting about a traffic car.
What a sound guy and a weapon of a car. Top notch video ben!
Out of everything, what i love most is how the blue front calipers match and line up with the blue square on the livery 😍!
I remember watching Mick as a cop, now he’s a chief inspector, fair play Mick 👍
Looks like an awesome piece of kit! Full respect to the police for doing these sorts of videos!
I was a member of a golf club in the late 90s early 2000s. We had many police officers as members. The normal officers had little to do with the traffic cops. “They’d book their owns mothers!” I hope things have changed.
jealousy
The fact the force are integrating with your social media presence is significant and welcome. A worthy Chief, Nick should remain your go to for bringing modern Policing to the channel. The saying "once you ain't blue, no more you" seems to be not true in this case.
A very welcome addition. Well done Ben. 😎
That saying is definitely untrue, once a Cop always a Cop. It’s with you for life.
@@coops1964 uk has had a fair share of serial killer cops
Not going to lie. For a second when they opened the boot I though those cones where subs.
Same here!
Same lmao😂
And me!
100%
This is Ben Pearson & Mick Roffe, legends of the Interceptors & Traffic Cops finiest drivers
Excellent presentation, and how all the kit is shoehorned into that boot 😮 Well done guys and your promotion to TCI Mick, now we can see why you got promoted 😂😂 Iain
Well done Mick on advancing in your Career. Lovely to see you.
Absolutely class vid Ben. Nick is sound. Used to watch him on old traffic cops. Keep it up benny boy
Really enjoyed this format of video, always good to try new formats (out and about)
Mick Roffe, one of my favourites, no idea which TV show his RPU was on mind you! Great to see he's a Chief Inspector these days
Good to see you again Mr Roffe. I remember you pulling me on my bike, and you being a very young arrogant young man with little knowledge on sections 163,164 and 165. (I won that case by the way), but I would like to congratulate you on becoming Chief Inspector. I do hope that arrogance has gone. Take care.
Maybe the arrogance has been passed on to someone else, just saying?
Who else saw the cones in the boot at first and think why do they have a banging sound system? 😂
Thanks for the review Ben and also nice to see a fellow traffic cops star.
I'm starting my new honest car review channel, which also reviews for disabled people.
Awesome video guys, thanks for the information and it great to get a look behind the new M135i cars that NYP has!
Laughed at 6:38 when they opened the boot and I thought for half a sec there were a couple of red 12" subs in there 😂
Omg, this is next level content Ben, absolutely brilliant……and how the heck is Mick Roffe a CI that quick! Miss you both on the TV.👍
Micks now a Chief Inspector, his face hair is impressive, would look well as licensee of "Woolpack".... nice to see him doing well
I remember Mick Roffe from series he's done well for himself 😁😁
Great video both and really interesting to understand more behind the scenes.
That graphics package is badass. The black grid around the blue & yellow reminds me of a comic book pannels. We don't have anything like that here.
Bought one of these recently, obviously in a different colour! 😉 Such a great car to drive.
Decent bit of kit. Drove through Yorkshire yesterday plenty of signs up encouraging motorists to slow down. Beautiful part of the world but the bottom line is enjoy it but get home safe. 90mph down the dales is straight up madness
A couple of questions: 1 How many takes to get that stack of cones out of the boot in one go without them getting stuck lol :) and 2: The stinger. Do you ever get loose "stings" that have been pulled from the main body but come out of the tyre scattered around the area especially after a tyre has shredded after some plonker carried on trying to drive?
The boot... I seriously thought you had 2x12" Vibe speakers you've nabbed from Halfords, with some DIY custom amp setup... but they were just cones.
Same here had a good chuckle to myself. Could imagine Ben doing a shitbag joke like that.
Totally!!! "Car's a bit chavvy, and surprise surprise, it's blasting out dnb from your shitbag's ram-raided acquisitions" I just love how honest and candid Ben is on his youtube.@@ozaricblox
Absolutely brilliant ben what a great review and what a great car ...thanks for sharing 😊
Ben have North Yorkshire traffic got the BMW 135i on the fleet due to BMW no longer providing any of the 3.0diesels in the 330 530 & X5 to UK police forces due to oil starvation problems is it all cars with the N54 diesel engine. West Yorkshire have still got 330d"s , while walking my dog at 4ish I've seen 1 today. In Wakefield recently I've seen Leon Cupra estate traffic car unmarked. Noticed the 135i had YJ all west Yorkshire cars start YJ in the registration plate. Ben watching the video you make your ex colleague look small either that or your huge , as usual great video .
Ben, why are you such a LEGEND?
It goes really well in bends my god that’s really technical
More videos like this would be epic, fair play, enjoying the content.
Congrats Mick on the Promotion Chief Inspector
He can't say if it modded, hmmm, wonder if they fit a 4 inch decat, uprated intercooler, air intake, higher capacity fuel pumps and then a cheeky hybrid turbo.
Here to educate? I live in North Yorkshire and we have mobile speed vans. These are usually parked in stealth mode and not in accident black spots. A good cash generater for NYP.
thing looks mean as hell, absolutely belting.
Great video Ben, more like this please
At first, I thought the cones in the back were speakers 😂
Welcome too CopGear
Well deserved promotion Chief Inspector Mick Roffe.
Just a small correction on the M135ixd spec…….the engine has 450nm not 400nm😉
It's good to see the police see the value in you and your presence on TH-cam as a way to reach out and educate through your channel
Excellent vid Ben, good to see Mick again after all those years.
I'm sure my 520 would lose that 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would love to see more videos like this- amazing
Had a 135 for 2.5 yrs, competent little car but it's front wheel drive until it looses grip when the rears come in so it doesn't drive like a RWD biased X-drive 3 or 4 series for instance like the 335D X-drive I had previously. As a result it does torque steer quite badly under acceleration which makes it a little less engaging to drive I guess. Benefits from selecting the active damper option from factory as well in terms of cornering as most BMW's do. Biggest gripe for me, as with most BMW's, is the throttle mapping in the different driving modes; be great to make it more linear across the modes and leave economy / performance to the gearbox - otherwise if you use the different modes you have to "learn" the throttle map under your foot. That and the steering wheel is way too chunky 😉
Great video Ben, hope to see more like this x
Love to see an older Vectra C traffic car and this motor head to head on a simulated response on a track, I bet the 135 would run rings around the old Vectras.
I’d like to see it against Lancs old River Sterling 827s myself!
what about Scoobies and evos Yorkshire police forces had
i remember speaking to nick at cops and cars when he pulled out a sausage from the boot of a police car
A few years ago now but had the pleasure of sitting in a North Yorkshire Subaru Impreza STI traffic car......fair enough it was at the end of the Skipton bypass in the passenger seat getting a bit of a telling off.😬😬
I thought when he opened the boot there were 2 bass subs 😂
Good vid. When Mick opened the boot at first for a joke he had put a couple bass boxes in there!
Epic place the motorist .. go there often I’ve hosted the Audi TT meets there June 22 June 23 and it’s already booked June 24.. 😬😎
A lot of forces binned off BMW due to issues with I think the oil when the engines were left idling for extended periods of time? Are North Yorkshire not concerned by this or have BMW fixed it in their most recent blue light releases?
That was just on the 6cyl diesels.
Ahhh mega cheers 👌
When he opened the boot I thought those witches hats were a pair of banging sub woofers
best video yet Ben
Why did I click this video expecting a track review by a police officer 😂
Holy hell, he shot up the ranks...
Keep up the great work ben!
Have you done the same video with the M340i?
How do they get the correct speed with digital speedos? All gps now?
My uncle used to have one of them, git rid of it became he said its too unpredictable as the power its trying to put through its wheels makes it a problem. ** his wasnt this new one, his was rwd i believe hence its issues. Awd makes more sense
BMW's I ever owned dead Skippy on the back end 330i and 335i! RWD only The older 135i is a widow maker 🥵. 306 bhp to the 4 wheels x-drive you need particularly with the UK weather and pot like the Grand Canyon and low maintenance.
Awesome video. Would love to see videos on the rest of the fleet.
Was it only me or did anybody else think there was 2 subs in the boot? I did at first glance 😂😂
Police car with double bass setup, sweet. Car does look great compared to our old 80s astra.
Would be interesting getting a traffic officers aspects on what cars are the main ones criminals used that gave them a run for their money
Going by what Ben has said about this in the past, I'd say Audi RS3's.
@johnmitchell2269 I'd not caught that one. I'd have thought most would have been the M3 or similar BMW card, we all know how their drivers can be
Hi Ben, What happens if your tires are run flat tires your stinger would be useless RIGHT?
Some forces have x-net that overcome run flats.
Damn that thing looks good in the police livery!
Great video thanks gents 😊
Still doing a brilliant job Ben👌
That's a cool livery
Great vid hopefully more car reviews to follow 👍
Thought that was a sound system in the boot at first 😂
where do you store your greggs sausage roll and brew now??
Congratulations to Mick, the boy dun gud 👍
The four skinny antennae on the roof… what are they for? I know the one on the back is for the airwave mobile set but nobody says what those are for
Thought it was for tracker recovery on stolen for their beacons?
Ahhhh yes the old concrete cones that can deflect cars! 😂😂
Jokes aside, brilliant video! Really really informative, and a great watch! :)
Those look awesome in police livery. 👍
I see they've swapped the OEM Bridgestones for Goodyears. I'm on my second one of these and its the first 'mod' any new owner should do.
Thought mick had two big orange subs in the back at first 😂
He’s had a few promotions since TC! 👍🏻
Great vid Ben
2:49 please as if ben doesn't know the answer to that question and that he was going to get that reply ;) He just knew the audience would want that asking!
Roffe went through the ranks fast 😳
I thought that bmw had pulled the plug on selling to U.K. police, I’m sure I’d seen it in one of the car magazines, something to do with fire risk or something on those lines and that traffic were going back to Volvos.
Awesome guys
Fantastic video!!!
Nice, these front ends lift at high speed, I work in recovery and as soon as you see a 1 series it’s guaranteed to be a single vehicle where the driver just lost control
“It’s got lights like a Christmas tree” no doubt my friend it’s a bmw 😂😂😂