someone failed to get into the police force lol, they now run a broadband
Satellite company
Thought 95% of them 
went to vostapo 
for a job if they didnt make the grade for the filth
That looks like blue n yellow battenberg on the side. Only Police allowed to have that AFAIK.
I believe he’s only breaking the law if the battenburg is reflective but I stand to be corrected. Reflective battenburg is covered in the lighting regulations.
Offence of impersonating a police officer ? 
Lycanthrope:
Offence of impersonating a police officer ?
It is a vehicle, not a person, and looks nowt like a plod car.
If he got out wearing a leather cap and pink furry handcuffs whilst handling his weapon, then that could be construed as acting like a policeman
Driveroneuk:
That looks like blue n yellow battenberg on the side. Only Police allowed to have that AFAIK.
I thought that too, but I don’t have anything official to back it up. 
Rob K:
Driveroneuk:
That looks like blue n yellow battenberg on the side. Only Police allowed to have that AFAIK.I thought that too, but I don’t have anything official to back it up.
The battenburg colours were only ‘agreed’ by emergency services, rather than formalised in law. Provided the vehicle doesn’t have the word ‘Police’ on it, it’s all above board. There’s an ex-police Landrover running around Kent at the moment, owned by a large commercial recovery company - still has blue/yellow battenburg on it, but now has an amber light-bar fitter, and the company name written where ‘Police’ used to be written.
BravoGolfCharlie:
The battenburg colours were only ‘agreed’ by emergency services, rather than formalised in law. Provided the vehicle doesn’t have the word ‘Police’ on it, it’s all above board. There’s an ex-police Landrover running around Kent at the moment, owned by a large commercial recovery company - still has blue/yellow battenburg on it, but now has an amber light-bar fitter, and the company name written where ‘Police’ used to be written.
The Highway Man:
he’s only breaking the law if the battenburg is reflective
Correct.
So, I can buy myself a white Astra/Vectra/BMW whatever, put reflective blue & yellow battenberg tape on the side, write POLITE on it, add an amber beacon roof bar and you think no one will challenge it?
Driveroneuk:
So, I can buy myself a white Astra/Vectra/BMW whatever, put reflective blue & yellow battenberg tape on the side, write POLITE on it, add an amber beacon roof bar and you think no one will challenge it?
From a vehicles markings perspective, the law is quite clear that you can have the batternberg pattern, even utilising the same colours/pattern as emergency response vehicles, provided that any blue markings are non-reflective.
As for writing POLITE along the side, coupled with your behaviour (this is where it gets ‘muddy’), may see you reported for impersonating a Police Officer but ultimately it will be a magistrate (or even a jury) that decides if you were or were not.
Until a couple of months ago I had a Honda Pan European motorbike, a model favoured by the Police. Quite a few ex-Police bikes retain some/all of their markings when sold and it was on one of these that a member of one of the on-line owners clubs was pulled and arrested. It was a long drawn-out process with his bike being confiscated as ‘evidence’ until eventually in court, the judge threw the case out.
Now I don’t know this bloke but there was talk that he had been ‘sailing close to the wind’ i.e. he bought a hi-viz type of jacket, wore a white flip-up helmet and would overtake traffic whilst flashing his headlight (maybe had wig-wags fitted, I don’t know?).
IIRC his argument in court (which must’ve worked) was that his bike didn’t break any construction & use regs, nor any lighting regs (he had replaced the reflective blue with non-reflective) and that the Highway Code tells you that flashing your headlight is a recognised way of letting other road users know you are there. Like I said, ‘sailing close to the wind’!!
BTW, mine was an ex-Police bike but as it had been used on unmarked/surveillance duties it was a minging Volvo-green colour!!
To be honest I don’t think I’d like to put the above to the test, nor do I intend to.
It would infact probably impeed progress. I remember many years ago a friend who lived in Glasgow having a white Cavalier CD complete with fog lights & twin aerials. When you came up behind other traffic they always slowed down to 29mph even when in a 40/50.
Similar happened when my Dad got a white Rover 2000TC around 1975.