They didn't have a lae for drug driving then, just drink driving, got away with murder back in the day, weed wasn't a thing just good hash, lsd, and a few proper yokes done the job
The speed that Fiesta nailed the 205 I'm amazed it didn't split the thing in half, no idea how the two scallys survived that intact! And...£75 compensation? That probably wouldn't even put a tank of fuel in it these days!
I bet those coppers had the time of their lives doing this job in the 90's! Still young and legally driving pedal to the metal chasing after idiots in stolen cars, must have been an absolute blast.
THESE is real fake news you think these exists in today's world cheap one's£20 bag nevermind rust bucket with RS focus power in oldskool still silly police
For some reasons they began hiring losers who don't know how to go on with people, they shout and argue and have no natural authority and are in the job to enforce rather than serve, they have big egos that usually exacerbates situations rather than defusing. Old school coppers were good working class blokes who had the right attitude and exuded authority, they knew the law and didn't get wound up.
I live in Stockport car crime as always been high still is but boy the cars in this 1980/90s cars were the best cars ever so much high powered beauts fast fords vauxhall etc loved the cars from yesteryear todays modern shite doesn't compare in my opinion 😀
Yep im from Denton and use to work in stockort,yeah proper cars and they could shift too. ive been on the spanners since early 80s and still at it but no passion for new motors just aint got that feeling :}
Claire Jensen That's because Traffic Cops follows modern traffic units which have had all their fun ruined by rules and regulations lol no more pursuing in high performance unmarked cars 😔 I agree though, this show was brilliant 😃
Claire Jensen Thanks 😊 Makes for a very interesting read. My understanding was (especially up here) was that unmarked high performance vehicles could be used for the initial phase, but must hand over as soon as possible to a marked unit who'll assume ground command responsibility, and can then move up into Tactical Phase, utilising PMT etc. Guess we all do it a little differently 😊 Thanks again for the document
I emailed WMP Traffic division regarding operational tactics on pursuits. They replied they could not discuss operational tactics lol (obviously I could be a car thief finding out how to evade them lol)
Watching this is a reminder of a time when there were no snowflakes. Imagine if the driver who was wiped out by the 16yr olds was today? He'd have his phone out filming the police, be suing the police for chasing, he'd have an ambulance there, he'd be in the paper angrily pointing at his car, and the police drivers would probably be suspended pending investigation.
That's my uncle ronnie with the city shirt on, he was city's number one fan and would travel to every game home and away. After this episode, he was well known everywhere as X cars! Thanks for putting this video up as it brings back great memories of a great uncle x .
Its Jamie Davies I like Manchester and Salford Manc780 mate and I hope I haven't upset you anyway Manc780 mate and I enjoy talking to you Manc780 mate.
The Sierra Cosworth has to be one of the coolest cop cars that the British police ever used, how did any joyrider think they were ever going to outrun a Cossie, particularly a 4X4 Cossie?
It wasn't the best thing to see in your mirror but in Miles platting we had plenty of things to lose them, R5 turbo, fiat uno turbo and if you wanted to do a decent graft Lancia Integrale but they were left hookers.. proud to say had 2 red and white
The police get outrun in most pursuits unless they have a heli up, they simply can't take the risk perps do and soon as they get 2 corners ahead its pretty much game over and luck if they choose the right turn. Cops shows never show this ofc, they want to give the impression that you won't get away
+TH-camkeepsmeup u what is it with people like you? How's traffic on the road down to foreigners? It's raining in the middle of summer it's the foreigners fault cuz back in da day it stayed sunny!! Get an education. Not an xbox or ps one
Foreigners then arrived and bought up these cossie forbys for their huge families. 6 kids on the back seats and 2 naughty ones in the boot... gat in da boot
I got chased off that cosworth when i was 18 i was in one myself and i got away from it going through bollards but got nicked a few streets away. Im 42 now so it was along time ago.
The nostalgia of this program is amazing . 4x4 sierra saphire cossies and big car noise was awesome to hear. Plus the tashes on the coppers . Man, Woman ... if only the world still had some old school teachings to it's new school counterparts .. ( obviously not in all areas !!! 😂)
I Loved the unintentional humor of "It's a good place to sit and just watch what goes by" as the camera shows them sat in the car as several groups of girls in mini skirts walk past.
Remember watching this when it came out, I worked for a company who had offices in Hyde in Manchester and frequently used to see familiar streets on the show! Car manufacturers were negligent at that time with regards to security - you could break into a car easily and drive it away by sticking a screwdriver into the ignition; no factory deadlocks, immobilisers or alarms, a mate of mine had his XR2 nicked twice in three days. I had Thatcham approved kit on my 205Gti and Cavalier GSI and fortunately never had a problem
I had a 205 GTi 1.6 in 1995 I heard off a good car thief you could only get around the ignition with a Stillson wrench which car thief’s didn’t carry around. A screwdriver could fit in a pocket
That burned out cop car, that was in openshaw next to delemere park, i remember that, people was talking about it at the time. i knew a few people from openshaw back then.
Nowadays, police no longer investigate stolen cars... they just advise to claim insurance now. And even if you have tracker and tell them exactly where your car is, they still won't do anything.
@Federal Bureau of Investigation over 16 years in London I sadly had to contact police like 5 times, not a single time they came to investigate. - bike stolen, closed investigation in 7 days. Reason - no leads or evidence. - bicycles stolen, closed investigation next day, didn't come to see cctv. Reason - no leads or evidence. - hit and run accident - closed investigation after 3 days. Reason - "not in public interest" to investigate. - guy came out on me with axe and then hit my car with hand denting the panel. Refused to open the case for a while, but eventually opened it... Eventually CPS found evidence insufficient to prove fault beyond reasonable doubt due to lack of evidence. There was dash-cam footage where you can see the guy swings his hand and then camera shakes, you can hear him hitting the car, but cannot actually see the panel he hits. Court decided that although he hit the car it cannot be proven he damaged it (ridiculous). But the point is - if police would have attended, they could have collected the evidence on the day and recorded damage to the panel making it guaranteed prosecution. Because they never collected any evidence, it was just my own picture and other guy argued that he hit the panel with palm and I must have dented it myself later on. Case lost solely because of police not doing their job. - finally, I parked in Luton overnight and next morning I had bullet hole in the car door (probably air-rifle). Called police and again they didn't even come to check. The officer asked me "why do I think it is bullet hole" :D WTF... how the fuck do I know. Maybe come and see yourself, it is hole in the door which looks like the "bullet hole" - you are police and could figure it out whenever it is or it isn't. Didn't bother them the slightest and closed investigation due to "lack of evidence". BUT... try exceeding the speed and they will descent on you like you are biggest criminal. One fine I got like 8 years ago for 52MPH on 50MPH average. And recently another-one for doing 70MPH on M6 in the middle of the night (empty motorway), because apparently there was temporary limit of 60MPH for 4 min and 4s. And this carries full fine and points as you were "properly speeding". And what they expect then... for people to respect them?
@Federal Bureau of Investigation I was told this is MET police in particular which is so terrible, the smaller forces are apparently better, but still Police in UK overall is big disappointment. I cannot compare it with much other forces across the world, but I tend to believe that they at least attempt to investigate something, collects some evidence and if it is relatively simple case they solve it. In UK there is basically 4 types of actions police takes - if it is anything to do with material damages (especially insured) they just refuse to investigate outright, then there are serious crimes which gets investigated, then political correctness crimes where police acts as private PC army and finally they are most interested in policing for money, that is ticketing people for minor infractions and generating money for the force. Some tactics nowadays are really similar to racketeering tactics used by mafia decades ago. Either way, it seems it wasn't like that all the time (as proven by this series), sadly I was too young to remember anything back in 1992. Nowadays it is clear they don't do any such proactive investigations.
@@lp9280 funny you saying that about the MET, you want to see them in action on recovering a stolen car that had a tracker, they fanny ed about, that much that when they did decide to make a move. The car had been stripped to a bare shell. Instead of taking down the gates, and going in for the car, when the tracker company had pin pointed there and then. Took then nearly 24 hours to act, the company of the car, has put in a complaint about the way it was handled by the police, and the remains for a 75k car was sold in auction to recover costs.
@@procta2343 I assume you talking about Black Mercedes GLS?.. seen that - just horrible! And it is not like isolated instance either, they do that every single time. That place is actually not far from where I live, I sometimes use garage just 100 metres from there when I need some small repair. For police (or maybe it is just MET) if you really want for them to stop listening to you just say "this is about motor vehicle" - I am surprised they do not interrupt you - "say no more - we not interested!" and hangs up on you.
@@lp9280 Watched that tonight, my comments I left were something like "Waste of time, crap organization, huge work for a piece of scrap", My next door neighbour with learning difficulties got beat up by a kickboxing wannabe, I got it all on film, my friend had also had open heart surgery 12months before, went to court, my friend got a £600 fine and a fkn restraining order...yes, that reads right. The thug gang I took on, and got them evicted off our street. FTP
Did he say over 800 cars stolen that week? Jesus it was bad then......loved the cars of the era though......your XR4x4s cossies cavalier turbos astra gte's etc.
It's a long time since I heard someone talk about the M63! How weird to see the police just do a random car check and leaving it at that, bidding them a good evening as he let them go, without stripping the car looking for drugs first. And just telling that guy to "stop at red lights in future" without giving him a ticket. I was often stopped in the 90s for driving a hot hatch, just to check it wasn't stolen. How things have changed.
Since the in option of the ANPR system, and the link up with the police data base, they dont need to pull cars over for routine checks anymore, all info they need is on their screen in seconds. They only reason they now will pull you in, is if the details dont match, I.e. a car registered/insured to a woman, driven by a man or such.
@@henkmeerdink936 To be fair, they already had that information from doing a PNC check while following you. ANPR is more useful at flagging up administrative discrepancies that you mentioned without the officer ever needing to be suspicious enough to check. He can sit there and read his twitter feed whilst the technology does the work for him. I suppose in that sense, the likelihood of being pulled over if you are administratively "legal" is smaller, but I think it's smaller for everyone, honestly. I suppose "joyriding" is also less of a thing now. I had my hot hatch stolen 3 times in the 90s
See how both times the person being stipped didn't kick off saying why you harassing me or playing the race card more often than not people bring extra trouble on themselves play the game and your more likely to be on your way quicker
Don't worry mate. Plenty of people in hotter cars still get checked on occasion. Only, just for legal mods instead of stolen or for drugs if it's a tinted window german performance.
i heard that the kid in the Montego was Acer Hunter From Gorton. there's 2 acer hunters, one is the son, he's about late 20s now, but it was his dad in that, big acer. he was about late teens then.
Anyone have the police series called Mersey Blues at all? or episode 6 of the bbc series fire fighters also based in Merseyside great up loads these thank you muchly
This was broadcast on 2 September 1996. I enjoyed the stinger 26:23. X Cars was repeated but revised. In a revised repeat, the drink-driver who was oblivious to a burst tyre was caught driving whilst disqualified only a few months later. He did not turn up at court and went on the run.
I remember getting pulled over in my white H reg Astra gte 16v in the 90s in Liverpool,and the reason was a couple of lads in a smoking motor,quick car that,another one I should have kept.
I was walking it home one night from stretford to partington as i was skint and could not afford to get a bus or taxi it was about 2am and to my surprise two cars pulled up and offered me a lift they guys are in this driving the xcars.👍❤❤
ha - 4:00 ish - check out the PC's at the station - man, that is some ancient tech, trust me !!! the cars would look less out of place today, and would be slightly more functional, to say the least... !!! :)
Ah those were the days. All you needed was a flat head screwdriver and a set of stilsens or a scaff bar or if you were a real pro a slide hammer and you could have any car on the road pretty much.
It's gone full circle with modern stuff. Poorly secured / easily hacked CAN networks and keyless entry systems, and internet entrepreneurs selling the kit to do it. Most modern stuff can be driven away in about 30 seconds without any damage whatsoever.
Im a simple man. I see a sierra cosworth...i click on the video.
I'm with you bro
Ha ha ha
Same here😂
Sapphire. They are pretty nice.
Yep
And not one “I can smell cannabis coming from the vehicle” lol
Different type of substance back then. Less pungent lol
Cannabis didnt exist in the 90s lol
They didn't have a lae for drug driving then, just drink driving, got away with murder back in the day, weed wasn't a thing just good hash, lsd, and a few proper yokes done the job
@@andyasdf2078 good old hash the proper stuff non of this skunk crud
@@Sam-bz1hr and hash is made from what exactly ?
Imagine telling your grand kids you had a chase in a montego estate
What about if it wasn't an estate? Asking for a friend.
@@chrisb1978 think your friend is getting you to ask silly questions
The speed that Fiesta nailed the 205 I'm amazed it didn't split the thing in half, no idea how the two scallys survived that intact! And...£75 compensation? That probably wouldn't even put a tank of fuel in it these days!
Thanks for uploading these. I remember watching these back in the late 90's. Ah the good old days with the VHS
thanks for upload :)
12:51 he’s nicked on suspicion of dangerous driving and he’s a disqualified driver and driving a vehicle with no insurance
4 grand fine? Jesus. What is in todays money then!
Proper coppers who didn’t piss about
I bet those coppers had the time of their lives doing this job in the 90's! Still young and legally driving pedal to the metal chasing after idiots in stolen cars, must have been an absolute blast.
mid 20s, given a Cosworth and a speed exemption? No kidding !
Also corrupt as fuck.
@@Lousy_Bastard yawn
@@iainv4092 yep police corruption and abuse of authority is tiresome.
Yep, no speed humps, camera's and far less traffic lights, UK roads were one big race track
Back before the police turned into wet wipes 🙈
There's still roadworks on that m61 junction today XD
I bet it is still ongoing
Still going....
Yeah I know
Signs telling your coming up on signs
😂
Ah not a speed camera in sight, those were the days...
DashCam Bandit lot more police on the streets though
Just get the number plates out that the cameras cant read
We had speed cameras, but much less of them about. No ANPR's so I used to get pulled all the time lol
Nor producer's
THESE is real fake news you think these exists in today's world cheap one's£20 bag nevermind rust bucket with RS focus power in oldskool still silly police
4x4 note 4x4 1992 J Reg Sapphire Cosworth in rare Silver. Lovely!
still about but in storage
It’s a K plate
Back when cops were descent blokes and GMP was not doing its best impersonation of the Stazi and covering up for “grooming gangs”.
It was also going on back then
For some reasons they began hiring losers who don't know how to go on with people, they shout and argue and have no natural authority and are in the job to enforce rather than serve, they have big egos that usually exacerbates situations rather than defusing. Old school coppers were good working class blokes who had the right attitude and exuded authority, they knew the law and didn't get wound up.
miss all these old skool cars man
Every petrol head does.
Too easy pinch..
me too
@consistency 14 nova
👍
Would love to see a documentary showing all these cops and criminals 25 years later. See how they have all aged and their lives panned out.
Would be good that I bet the criminals faired better then the coppers I bet Thier all dead of alcoholism or heart attacks now
Would make a great TV series that, cops and crims 20 years on!
The car technician guy who took a family round their old car which had been recovered in one episode did appear in a 2000s episode of car wars
Will either be promoted, cid, or private security experience like this in demand overseas Middle East etc
Some still in tvcu driving golf type r's
£75 compensation hahahaha what a joke
And the guy in the first clip was fined £4,000 and didn't hit any other cars!
The guy who narrates this would scare the shit out of you if you heard him read a bedtime story.
Haha it's John Nettles
He does sound like John Nettles but is the actor. Ralph Ineson. And has been in Game Of Thrones
@@jasonsol1719 Did you not see the end credits? Would you like custard with that humble pie? 😂😂
It’s Jim Bergerac ,AKA John “ Soothing & Stinging “ Nettles 👍
I live in Stockport car crime as always been high still is but boy the cars in this 1980/90s cars were the best cars ever so much high powered beauts fast fords vauxhall etc loved the cars from yesteryear todays modern shite doesn't compare in my opinion 😀
yeah I had a Ford Capri and then an ? Escort GT loved those things lol
Vauxhall Lotus Carlton, Ford RS Turbo, BMW M3 (when Beemers were actually cool), Rover Vitesse, Mercedes 190E....... cars back then were AWESOME
Yep im from Denton and use to work in stockort,yeah proper cars and they could shift too. ive been on the spanners since early 80s and still at it but no passion for new motors just aint got that feeling :}
Better than Traffic Cops :)
Claire Jensen That's because Traffic Cops follows modern traffic units which have had all their fun ruined by rules and regulations lol no more pursuing in high performance unmarked cars 😔 I agree though, this show was brilliant 😃
West Midlands Police Pursuit Policy Document
Claire Jensen Thanks 😊 Makes for a very interesting read. My understanding was (especially up here) was that unmarked high performance vehicles could be used for the initial phase, but must hand over as soon as possible to a marked unit who'll assume ground command responsibility, and can then move up into Tactical Phase, utilising PMT etc. Guess we all do it a little differently 😊 Thanks again for the document
I emailed WMP Traffic division regarding operational tactics on pursuits. They replied they could not discuss operational tactics lol (obviously I could be a car thief finding out how to evade them lol)
Car Wars from the late 00s was an updated version of this, followed the newly reformed Tactical Vehicle Crime Unit of GMP
Watching this is a reminder of a time when there were no snowflakes. Imagine if the driver who was wiped out by the 16yr olds was today? He'd have his phone out filming the police, be suing the police for chasing, he'd have an ambulance there, he'd be in the paper angrily pointing at his car, and the police drivers would probably be suspended pending investigation.
yeah he was proper chill, got more upset over footy score lol
Your pro pic is ironically everything you described.. lol
110mph with 3 tyres? Doubt it especially rear wheel drive
4x4
Go watch Banger racing, 100mph with one tyre
@@med86win Bangers don't do 100mph you clown
10 mins in....'its a good place to park up and watch the skirt go by' lol
Bib Bib they were their daughters...
I was hoping i wasn't the only one to notice the whiplash they nearly give themselves
12:38 nobody check on the innocent driver who hit them 🤦🏻♂️
That's my uncle ronnie with the city shirt on, he was city's number one fan and would travel to every game home and away. After this episode, he was well known everywhere as X cars! Thanks for putting this video up as it brings back great memories of a great uncle x .
Its Jamie Davies is salford a safe place for me to visit Manc780 mate?
Its Jamie Davies I'm from Romania Manc780 but I have lived my hole life in the UK and I live in Carlisle City Manc780 mate
Its Jamie Davies don't get me wrong I like Manchester and Salford and I support Manchester united Manc780 mate.
Its Jamie Davies I like Manchester and Salford Manc780 mate and I
enjoy talking to you Manc780 mate.
Its Jamie Davies I like Manchester and Salford Manc780 mate and I hope I haven't upset you anyway Manc780 mate and I enjoy talking to you Manc780 mate.
100 hours of community service, you couldn't make it up, could you
great throwback to my youth! (I wasn't a car thief lol)
The good old days when you could listen in on chases with a scanner
Or be the one in the chase cars,were just so easy to nick back then ahhh those were the days
@@mathewmeehan5553 indeed, easiest was the classic Nova
🤣 RadioShack
@user-ts9fy6se6u Fuck what year are you talking about? Also change my and me to them and their, just incase 🤣
Tandy @@JM-cw1er
Just 30 years ago, our TV presenters spoke like this. The police officers spoke like this. What a bloody state we're in now. Zero standards at all.
John Nettles!
John nettles the narrator fking legend of a guy
Class, Cossie's vs shitty old Montego's :) Good times
Ford Sierra Cosworth...an EPIC CAR
The Sierra Cosworth has to be one of the coolest cop cars that the British police ever used, how did any joyrider think they were ever going to outrun a Cossie, particularly a 4X4 Cossie?
r u mad we did enogh times
Rs turbo blew them out in Beswick
@@pablojmanchester1786 any Irish family
It wasn't the best thing to see in your mirror but in Miles platting we had plenty of things to lose them, R5 turbo, fiat uno turbo and if you wanted to do a decent graft Lancia Integrale but they were left hookers.. proud to say had 2 red and white
The police get outrun in most pursuits unless they have a heli up, they simply can't take the risk perps do and soon as they get 2 corners ahead its pretty much game over and luck if they choose the right turn. Cops shows never show this ofc, they want to give the impression that you won't get away
Policing in the late 80s early 90s is so different to nowadays!
ahh the classic cosworth :)
10:11 it’s a good place to sit and see what goes by 💃 👀
Yeah they were takin the piss!
Havin a right perv
How quiet were the roads back in the day!? *sigh*
thats befor the the foreigners arrived
+TH-camkeepsmeup u what is it with people like you? How's traffic on the road down to foreigners?
It's raining in the middle of summer it's the foreigners fault cuz back in da day it stayed sunny!! Get an education. Not an xbox or ps one
Foreigners then arrived and bought up these cossie forbys for their huge families. 6 kids on the back seats and 2 naughty ones in the boot... gat in da boot
@@youtubekeepsmeupu9596 true enough i suppose 😂😂
Ahh the good ol days. When the mist was so thick you could park your bike against it.
4 star petrol 😂
Takes me back to the 90's UK television days.
Foots to the floor in the RS!
Sierra Sapphire Cosworth police car- J202NNE Untaxed since 01 June 2002
sat in a warehouse making value.... police are all about cash schemes lol
Police cars don't need TAX, they are state owned
Cascroft2011 hahaaaa nice job I was wondering if it would still be about
@@mikehugh7899 not in the UK . Each force buys it's own vehicles
Probably nothing left to tax. Metal work has likely turned to dust long ago.
1200 insurance , you lot had it good.
£4000 in fines for the bmw driver at the beginning. That’s £7500 by today’s standards.
@@ElementsMMA Prison now though
I pay about 18 to 1900 yearly in the United States, but I’ve got a car and a truck
I paided £1600 for a 1.3 Yaris in 2014. I sure have had a 4x4 serria!
I thought that was alright. I paid the same for. 1.2 corsa in 2008 hahaha
How did they walk out of that 205 tin can
Over 6 years later and we all get recommended this, great TV show, hadn't heard of it. Even better than Road Wars!
Steve Warr, who produced X Cars, also co-produced Road Wars (alongside Bill Rudgard of Police Stop fame!).
I got chased off that cosworth when i was 18 i was in one myself and i got away from it going through bollards but got nicked a few streets away. Im 42 now so it was along time ago.
ive been colin lee stevenson 17 popalar rd for the last 22 years never get stopped now ,
I wonder if he's still paying £1250 a year third party for his insurance 😅
not much stood a chance with a rozzeh in a Cozzeh after em'
Lol they have been telling is what a stinger is for about 19 years lol
Judging by the wheel trims and wind down windows, I'd say the Sierra 4x4 they stop at 8:27 was Ex Police
Spotted those window winders streight away too 😂 was wondering why they weren't electric on a XR4X4
the fuel bill for that cossie must of been something else lol
I'm commenting from the future ..How does 2 quid a little sound ?
The nostalgia of this program is amazing . 4x4 sierra saphire cossies and big car noise was awesome to hear. Plus the tashes on the coppers . Man, Woman ... if only the world still had some old school teachings to it's new school counterparts .. ( obviously not in all areas !!! 😂)
I Loved the unintentional humor of "It's a good place to sit and just watch what goes by" as the camera shows them sat in the car as several groups of girls in mini skirts walk past.
Those were the days.. bend the door out. Snap it cap it and your off 🤣🤣🤣
1st chase cop said 100 mph with a front puncture llf ,whats the cops reading there rev counter lol
Remember watching this when it came out, I worked for a company who had offices in Hyde in Manchester and frequently used to see familiar streets on the show!
Car manufacturers were negligent at that time with regards to security - you could break into a car easily and drive it away by sticking a screwdriver into the ignition; no factory deadlocks, immobilisers or alarms, a mate of mine had his XR2 nicked twice in three days. I had Thatcham approved kit on my 205Gti and Cavalier GSI and fortunately never had a problem
Not a Harry moss alarm in sight :-)
I had a 205 GTi 1.6 in 1995 I heard off a good car thief you could only get around the ignition with a Stillson wrench which car thief’s didn’t carry around. A screwdriver could fit in a pocket
Yeah, I had an xr2 stolen whilst I popped into the shop, took them less than 2 mins.... bastards! Never saw it again 😢
Gary Windass' Dad of corrie??? 13.30
90s all about the cars and meets miss them so much had some good times and nights
Number 1 question, Who in the hell steals a montego? Number 2, £75 compensation for writing off his car?...pah!!!
Voiceover by Droopy Dog;)
It’s a great place to sit and see what goes by 😂 10:01
Lol, those girls are probably in their late 40s by now, but the Cossie still looks that gorgeous.
8:06 "Lovely gear change" :D
😂😂😂
That burned out cop car, that was in openshaw next to delemere park, i remember that, people was talking about it at the time. i knew a few people from openshaw back then.
10:10 good place to stop to see what goes bye perves checking out the young ladys lol
Nowadays, police no longer investigate stolen cars... they just advise to claim insurance now. And even if you have tracker and tell them exactly where your car is, they still won't do anything.
@Federal Bureau of Investigation over 16 years in London I sadly had to contact police like 5 times, not a single time they came to investigate.
- bike stolen, closed investigation in 7 days. Reason - no leads or evidence.
- bicycles stolen, closed investigation next day, didn't come to see cctv. Reason - no leads or evidence.
- hit and run accident - closed investigation after 3 days. Reason - "not in public interest" to investigate.
- guy came out on me with axe and then hit my car with hand denting the panel. Refused to open the case for a while, but eventually opened it... Eventually CPS found evidence insufficient to prove fault beyond reasonable doubt due to lack of evidence. There was dash-cam footage where you can see the guy swings his hand and then camera shakes, you can hear him hitting the car, but cannot actually see the panel he hits. Court decided that although he hit the car it cannot be proven he damaged it (ridiculous). But the point is - if police would have attended, they could have collected the evidence on the day and recorded damage to the panel making it guaranteed prosecution. Because they never collected any evidence, it was just my own picture and other guy argued that he hit the panel with palm and I must have dented it myself later on. Case lost solely because of police not doing their job.
- finally, I parked in Luton overnight and next morning I had bullet hole in the car door (probably air-rifle). Called police and again they didn't even come to check. The officer asked me "why do I think it is bullet hole" :D WTF... how the fuck do I know. Maybe come and see yourself, it is hole in the door which looks like the "bullet hole" - you are police and could figure it out whenever it is or it isn't. Didn't bother them the slightest and closed investigation due to "lack of evidence".
BUT... try exceeding the speed and they will descent on you like you are biggest criminal. One fine I got like 8 years ago for 52MPH on 50MPH average. And recently another-one for doing 70MPH on M6 in the middle of the night (empty motorway), because apparently there was temporary limit of 60MPH for 4 min and 4s. And this carries full fine and points as you were "properly speeding".
And what they expect then... for people to respect them?
@Federal Bureau of Investigation I was told this is MET police in particular which is so terrible, the smaller forces are apparently better, but still Police in UK overall is big disappointment. I cannot compare it with much other forces across the world, but I tend to believe that they at least attempt to investigate something, collects some evidence and if it is relatively simple case they solve it. In UK there is basically 4 types of actions police takes - if it is anything to do with material damages (especially insured) they just refuse to investigate outright, then there are serious crimes which gets investigated, then political correctness crimes where police acts as private PC army and finally they are most interested in policing for money, that is ticketing people for minor infractions and generating money for the force. Some tactics nowadays are really similar to racketeering tactics used by mafia decades ago.
Either way, it seems it wasn't like that all the time (as proven by this series), sadly I was too young to remember anything back in 1992. Nowadays it is clear they don't do any such proactive investigations.
@@lp9280 funny you saying that about the MET, you want to see them in action on recovering a stolen car that had a tracker, they fanny ed about, that much that when they did decide to make a move. The car had been stripped to a bare shell. Instead of taking down the gates, and going in for the car, when the tracker company had pin pointed there and then. Took then nearly 24 hours to act, the company of the car, has put in a complaint about the way it was handled by the police, and the remains for a 75k car was sold in auction to recover costs.
@@procta2343 I assume you talking about Black Mercedes GLS?.. seen that - just horrible! And it is not like isolated instance either, they do that every single time. That place is actually not far from where I live, I sometimes use garage just 100 metres from there when I need some small repair. For police (or maybe it is just MET) if you really want for them to stop listening to you just say "this is about motor vehicle" - I am surprised they do not interrupt you - "say no more - we not interested!" and hangs up on you.
@@lp9280 Watched that tonight, my comments I left were something like "Waste of time, crap organization, huge work for a piece of scrap", My next door neighbour with learning difficulties got beat up by a kickboxing wannabe, I got it all on film, my friend had also had open heart surgery 12months before, went to court, my friend got a £600 fine and a fkn restraining order...yes, that reads right. The thug gang I took on, and got them evicted off our street. FTP
Class best car cops series. Have a couple recorded on vhs but no way of watching them now haha.thanks for sharing this can't beat the old school ✌
Did he say over 800 cars stolen that week? Jesus it was bad then......loved the cars of the era though......your XR4x4s cossies cavalier turbos astra gte's etc.
It's a long time since I heard someone talk about the M63! How weird to see the police just do a random car check and leaving it at that, bidding them a good evening as he let them go, without stripping the car looking for drugs first. And just telling that guy to "stop at red lights in future" without giving him a ticket. I was often stopped in the 90s for driving a hot hatch, just to check it wasn't stolen. How things have changed.
That copper just wanted to rag it down the motorway. 135mph, doubt he was even that bothered about catching up with the chase of the fiesta! Love it.
Since the in option of the ANPR system, and the link up with the police data base, they dont need to pull cars over for routine checks anymore, all info they need is on their screen in seconds. They only reason they now will pull you in, is if the details dont match, I.e. a car registered/insured to a woman, driven by a man or such.
@@henkmeerdink936 To be fair, they already had that information from doing a PNC check while following you. ANPR is more useful at flagging up administrative discrepancies that you mentioned without the officer ever needing to be suspicious enough to check. He can sit there and read his twitter feed whilst the technology does the work for him. I suppose in that sense, the likelihood of being pulled over if you are administratively "legal" is smaller, but I think it's smaller for everyone, honestly. I suppose "joyriding" is also less of a thing now. I had my hot hatch stolen 3 times in the 90s
See how both times the person being stipped didn't kick off saying why you harassing me or playing the race card more often than not people bring extra trouble on themselves play the game and your more likely to be on your way quicker
Don't worry mate. Plenty of people in hotter cars still get checked on occasion. Only, just for legal mods instead of stolen or for drugs if it's a tinted window german performance.
9:30 - to think now people have to pay that for a crumby little FWD hatchback!
in 1997 1250 pounds, is 2000 in 2021. And that escort isint any faster then todays "crumby little fwd hb"
i heard that the kid in the Montego was Acer Hunter From Gorton. there's 2 acer hunters, one is the son, he's about late 20s now, but it was his dad in that, big acer. he was about late teens then.
Manchesters X department. I wonder what happened to their cozzie..
Mike Roy your a legend, I remember watching these at the time and had them on vhs but sadly lost them.
Thanks for the upload. Loved this show back in the day!
this dude needs to learn to change up a bit earlier
Nice one. loved this when I was a teenager in Manchester
7:40 ish - "Its a Ford..the kind of car stolen by young lads".... RAR !!! :)
No need for police interpreters back then
Coppers in a cossie and their call sign is 'Sierra 1744' 🤣🤣 saph cos, iconic car 👍
1744 was the collar number of one of the officers. The number shown in pursuits is usually the driver.
Anyone have the police series called Mersey Blues at all? or episode 6 of the bbc series fire fighters also based in Merseyside great up loads these thank you muchly
John Johnstone I might have Firefighters somewhere, will have a look
This was broadcast on 2 September 1996. I enjoyed the stinger 26:23. X Cars was repeated but revised. In a revised repeat, the drink-driver who was oblivious to a burst tyre was caught driving whilst disqualified only a few months later. He did not turn up at court and went on the run.
Having a mufc tattoo why watching xcars bliss ❤
First aired in 1996 but was repeated in 1997.
Imagine being the 16 year olds watching that crash back, absolute madness.
I remember getting pulled over in my white H reg Astra gte 16v in the 90s in Liverpool,and the reason was a couple of lads in a smoking motor,quick car that,another one I should have kept.
I was walking it home one night from stretford to partington as i was skint and could not afford to get a bus or taxi it was about 2am and to my surprise two cars pulled up and offered me a lift they guys are in this driving the xcars.👍❤❤
Openshaw......
70 quid for writing his car off I'd write the parents off 😂 😂 😂
Imagine getting paid to hoon round in a Sierra Cosworth.
How can he describe the xr4x4 as a top car when he's driving around in a Sapphire Cosworth 4x4
ha - 4:00 ish - check out the PC's at the station - man, that is some ancient tech, trust me !!! the cars would look less out of place today, and would be slightly more functional, to say the least... !!! :)
Ah those were the days. All you needed was a flat head screwdriver and a set of stilsens or a scaff bar or if you were a real pro a slide hammer and you could have any car on the road pretty much.
fords were deffo the easiest to nick
@@brianmunich553vauxhall were easy if steering column didn't break
It's gone full circle with modern stuff. Poorly secured / easily hacked CAN networks and keyless entry systems, and internet entrepreneurs selling the kit to do it. Most modern stuff can be driven away in about 30 seconds without any damage whatsoever.
GRASS.........Said the man from the Daily Mail
5:00 - the element of surprise - what, like those sirens.. !!! they don't make them sound like that no more !!! :) kinda glum really !!! :)
I think that car does know he's being followed and about the blow out. He just doesn't give a fuck !!!
Fucking hell, is the guy who was hit in the crash the mad hippy guy who made videos of him tripping on acid and taking salvia?
Excellent find. Many thanks. 'Marple Road!'
That takes me back. I lived at 54 Marple Road in the 70s just down from the junction with Hillcrest Road.
Towards Offerton.
How annoying are the sirens 🚨
Used to put the fear of God into crims though.
I remember watching this on the TV . I used to have a moonstone blue sapphire cos . great days I miss the 90s 😔
Chris... your father wants you to buy another one. ASAP. Lives for the living, buy a Cosseh Chris.
I liked the magenta ones 🙂👌🏻
@@realMaverickBuckley I couldn't afford one today especially how much they have gone up in value . I sold mine for six Grand with FSH .
@@pedallinraw the magenta reds are lovely arnt they especially on the 4x4s with the later style alloys .
@@chrissummerfield9583 And black leather Recaros!
Rozza in a Cossa.What a great job that must have been
The UK version of Miami Vice, only in Cold, Miserable Manchester and with a Sierra Cosworth instead of a White Ferrari Testarossa lol
used to see them in the escort cosworth around princess parkway
Exactly the same time when I got my Cosworth. Just a shame I still didn’t own it
Classic, police did more hands on work back then, with less kit too as the video equipment took up half the boot of the car.