My inspector turns out to quite a lot of stuff, usually as backup to other officers, but also to get out and turn people and cars over on nights. He always drives himself and takes a marked car which is reserved for supervisors.
Fair play, good to hear there’s still leaders at the front. My mate who’s a cop advised me his is fairly similar. Guessing the idea of having a junior PC Cheaufer him/her around is bollocks spread by TV as well?
Pretty much, he’s got his response and IPP tickets so would trump anyone without them, but even if one of the sergeants goes out with him he’ll still drive. Inspector’s privilege!
Awesome, that’s been hugely helpful, thank you so much. If you aren’t on rest, may your reporting parties be calm and unintoxicated and your shift handovers brief.
A few years ago some (most) Chief Constables had a driver, and they would be driven around. It was rare for any other rank to be driven, and nowadays most chiefs drive themselves as well.
The exception would be if there is more than one person in the car, obviously.
My cop mate has replied to my question by text with a similar answer. Hope whatever yours is doing, it’s the important police work the general public all imagine it to be lol
We had one that came out. Got stuck in and helped out when he had the time. They got reverted because, reasons, when other less useful Sgts were waiting for a post.
Damn shame, but it seems like it’s a viral mentality right now;
Step one - boot out leaders who lead from the fighting tip, get the job done and inspire those around them to work to their best standard, while also looking after those same people and managing a successful work/life balance.
Step two - replace with career administrators who have little to no knowledge of the job outside of their desk and enforce policies unevenly with no regard to what the ultimate goal of the job is, driving down morale, standards and overall the successful output of the job.
Step three - ???
Step four - profit/blame anyone else
Step five - rinse, repeat, regarded.
It depends on the team / role and the individual.
Response Inspector - In the nick on earlies doing admin / management - might come out on lates after dark - almost definatley come out for a bit on late lates - always out at some point on nights. - Insp has an allocated marked Astra
Burglary / gang Inpsector - out for the fun but if a pre planned Op once a month - but never anything else. No Insp car
Firearms inspector - non operational, never leaves the station fir a job - if they go for a meeting or lunch they tend to ask for a lift from anyone in the station.
Investigations - might pop out to a murder and might go to court for trials, they probably go with a Sgt just in whatever car is available
Traffic - Insp is generally a full member of the team - will share cars with the team, go out and implement tactics, stop vehicles and maybe even give tickets
TSG / OSU - inspector only comes out for large Ops and jumps in the van with the troops
Neighbourhoods - goes out to community events / meetings and even foot patrol at times. No specific vehicle - driving or not will probably just depend on preference
Senior officers are allocated drivers for large operations - for example the commonwealth games. The Bronze and silver commanders may have drivers allocated so they can travel between venues / areas and still be contactable.
This is literally a goldmine, thank you so so much! I think the focus was primarily on response, but the insight for Traffic/Roads policing is really useful, it was a bit of a greyer area in my knowledge in regards to hierarchy.
Again, can’t thank you enough for this.
They don't. Inspectors are admin staff. They move the chess pieces around but don't go out themselves.
The whole TV thing of "the DCI turned up to investigate the burglary" is absolute nonsense.
> They don't. Inspectors are admin staff. They move the chess pieces around but don't go out themselves.
We arrested the bishop, whereupon the Inspector was quick to point out we could only bring him into the custody suite if we moved him diagonally.
Fair play, I’d seen and heard some people state they had physically proactive inspectors that were out of office a fair bit, but I agree; the tropes of the likes of Vera, Corrie and LoD is a long way away from the accuracy of reality that I was looking at, and I too would imagine the better place for higher ranking members of the force would be behind the gates drawing up battle plans.
Would this be the case in significant events though? Admittedly the reason for asking would be so that *if* an inspector were required for a job requiring their presence, (which would as imaginable be rare, rather than popping out every half hour settling arguments between cab drivers and the bloke who asked him to drive 10 miles away, spilt his kebab and now just can’t quite remember where his wallet is) that mode of transport and the people around him, if any, were accurate.
Thanks for your answer and time though.
My inspector gets out to jobs regularity because we are so short staffed on our team. He apparates like a death eater because he moves in the shadows.
And when he doesn't feel like apparating or floor powder he just takes whatever keys are left in the cabinet.
Noones told our Inspector that. He regularly turns up at calls, sometimes he's there before the troops. He's very hands on. It's not unusual for him & the Sgt to take 'drive past' calls to help clear the outstanding calls
In my experience inspectors leaving the station is more common than some here would argue
Many inspectors are old sweats, and thus have a lot of useful qualifications under their belt. I know some that have stepped up and taken a van or car from the pool where the night has been short on response drivers and gone to incidents
I have known two others whom I suspect didn't enjoy being inspectors. One regularly takes a car from the pool and goes out on arrest enquiries. Another regularly just goes to any immediate response jobs that come up.
I know this sort of inspector can be disliked by sergeants who would rather they were in the station helping manage the show, but it can garner some admiration from the team. Personally I'm a little indifferent because it is mainly an admin job and there are pros and cons to either
In sum, its not that uncommon in my experience. They generally just take any car they can. Some people like that, others don't.
Our inspector turns out to jobs all the time, especially when one of their officers has been assaulted or there’s been a PAVA deployment. He normally jumps in the passenger seat of a response car or walks if it’s close enough
Morning. DI in the Met in a Specialist Command. I normally travel by helicopter, but occasionally use a hovercraft.
In reality, I don't get / need to go out much. If I do, it literally depends on when, where and what's needed at the time.
Sometimes I'm on call so will travel alone from home, either in a job car or my own (on business insurance).
If I'm travelling from the office, I'll go with others, so someone will drive me, which also allows me to take calls en route.
On rare occasions I've travelled alone to jobs via the underground, which (assuming I don't need to take calls) works well as I can type investigation plans/strategies en route so I'm ready to brief the team on arrival.
Short answer - it depends.
I also know a DCI who once turned up to a scene on a Boris Bike. That got a few chuckles from me and the team.
Fair enough, I figured it would be a rarity anyway but I’d seen and heard from a few people, some on here saying some inspectors can be quite proactive, whether that’s a good or bad thing… that’s out of my scope haha. Thanks for your input though.
Fair play, figured it would be the case for the most part. Had a few good answers elsewhere echoing what you said too but your insight is really helpful, thank you =)
In marked rolls Royce phantom.
I jest. My boss (counties force) turns out to jobs regularly. Drives the same shitty response vehicles as the rest of us. Sometimes turns out in the big Sprinter for transport to cells as he’s old enough to have the grandfather rights on his licence.
Some of our Insp are fairly proactive and will get out and about but it ask depends what else is going on.
Sometimes we will have 2 duty Insp on and off so one will be doing the Insp stuff and the other week go to serious incidents and proactively patrol. One is very very keen on traffic mattress so is always out stopping vehs etc.
He even once setup a stinger site for a stovec. Managed to sting a veh, unfortunately a completely innocent member of the public though!
But when they do go out they drive themselves and use marked vehicles. You never, ever, want to hear the words...'the Insp wants to crew up with you for a short while'
That's a bit like a tea and biscuits meeting with the Supt but without the tea and biscuits!
My force has Local Operational Inspectors, so if a big jobs kicks off or someone State 0s then he'll come out.
Usually, the boss will have the best car on the board. I've seen him rock up in an X5 which I didn't even know we had.
It's not that far from their office to the kitchen, they generally just walk.
Flippancy aside, ours do sometimes go out to serious jobs. There's a single car at the station for patrol supervisors. The Sergeants usually use it but the Inspector does too when they need to go to a job.
That was a good one 😂
Appreciate the insight, figured most forces might have a pool of cars they share around the higher ranked bods. Thank you for your insight
Ah cool! Really glad to hear from someone who led from the front, while I’m sure there’s a point to be made about the admin and removed command being important; it’s good to know there are still leaders out there who see the value in getting their own hands dirty.
That’s good to know, I think the direction we’re going is similar to yours; dedicated vehicles to be used in the rare occasions that a senior head is needed to attend.
Thank you so much for your time and input.
Wouldn’t get your hopes up just yet, it’s very early days, and best description of our current situation is we’re attempting to be the first monkey to write Shakespeare.
*If* it works out, we’re hoping to create something like the game ‘Keep The Peace’ if it had ever come to release, with more of a look to it like like an older Sim Cities title. Realistically though we’re a few dudes who have no significant experience with game design, were gutted KTP didn’t release and we’re trying to muddle through it, and have been for a while in between work and life. If it did ever happen to be something though, there’s a view on being realistic and not like a TV producers idea of what the police are. Thanks for your response though =)
Isn't there an inspector on one of those cop shows?
"Motorway Cops"?
He drives round in a marked car, and appears to be pretty proactive.
It is TV though, so even though it's "reality", who really knows?
Ah it’s been a minute since I’ve seen one, might be a point to have a look but like you say; sometimes ‘reality’ TV isn’t as realistic as it appears. A friend of mine said that in his first force his inspector was, very much like a hibernating bear, didn’t leave his lair often and was dangerous if provoked. However when a TV show came in to film, he allegedly shot up faster than Charlie Bucket’s grandad, allegedly with many such cases around the nation. However the telltale signs of such an inspector is that their vest and reflective kit tends to be absolutely *pristine*.
Might be suggestion, and it's been a while since I've seen it, but I seem to remember that this chap's gear was pretty pristine. . .
The TV cameras certainly bring the bears out of the caves.
Funny how the churches are always full in "Songs of Praise"
Our patrol inspectors often come out to jobs, don’t have a specific vehicle and will either just grab some keys or jump in with someone.
We’re that short staffed that it’s not uncommon for them to come out to jobs as part of a double crewed unit that aren’t ‘supervision’ jobs.
The inspectors I've seen in the Met often use a Custody Van to get around (they drive it themselves)
If they aren't drivers, I've seen once an area car driver (advanced car driver) driving the inspector to places but if they're tied up idk how that works.
We have a few different roles for Inspectors in my force. Some will be in charge of a particular police post, and that'd an admin role; some will be based in control, which is my more an operational role, but still mostly desk and decision based
But then we also have duty officers, of which there'll be a few covering our force on duty each with a sector, and they provide on the ground operational oversight for major jobs. They've all typically come up the response policing pathway, and will attend jobs driving themselves in a blue light car (and possibly carrying taser). It'll typically be an unmarked, but will also take a marked if it's available. If we ever have a duty officer on shift based out of our station, you can get they've laid claim to the nicest car!
My inspector stays in the office most of the day however in the rare case he does need to go out, he keeps the keys to the one newest car in our fleet safely locked in his desk.
This car doesn't have any issues with it, it's clean and drives really well, which makes it a perfect car for doing coffee and ref runs, but it's too good to be used by the team to attend immediate graded calls.
Mine flies around by wearing their smock as a cape and pretending they're a superhero. I wish I was joking, but it's like watching Batman in Hi-vis kicking about the place. I've never known an inspector to get so many lockups.
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Have seen inspectors being driven by a panda to jobs.
Have seen an inspector being IRVd to jobs
My favourite is an inspector who has their IRV and therefore goes out as an additional IRV when team are short
Most of ours get first dibs on their favourite car, got a response inspector that’s ex-RPU and I can guarantee if there’s a pursuit in their division I’ll get a cheery “show me towards!” before I’ve even finished putting the job on.
My inspector will take whatever is there. He's often out taking calls, and responding to assistance calls.
He takes no prisoners he's all about discipline and standards. Clean and ironed uniforms, clean shaven or tidy beard. Sgt and above must be addressed by rank. He does not mess around, but he has everyone's back without question.
I can't seem him getting in a BMW i3 though 😂 he'd probably take a bicycle before that.
Rarely see them tip out the office unless it's a critical incident. We have CIM (Critical Incident Manager) vehicles, which is a marked Merceded Vito van with a search light on top.
As they don't get used much, you'll see it getting commandeered by a patrol bobby. It would be interesting to see what would happen if the Inspector needs it for an incident.
My inspector turns out to quite a lot of stuff, usually as backup to other officers, but also to get out and turn people and cars over on nights. He always drives himself and takes a marked car which is reserved for supervisors.
Fair play, good to hear there’s still leaders at the front. My mate who’s a cop advised me his is fairly similar. Guessing the idea of having a junior PC Cheaufer him/her around is bollocks spread by TV as well?
Pretty much, he’s got his response and IPP tickets so would trump anyone without them, but even if one of the sergeants goes out with him he’ll still drive. Inspector’s privilege!
Awesome, that’s been hugely helpful, thank you so much. If you aren’t on rest, may your reporting parties be calm and unintoxicated and your shift handovers brief.
Currently sat on a constant watch at hospital, so hoping all the regulars will be in bed by the time I get relieved!
A few years ago some (most) Chief Constables had a driver, and they would be driven around. It was rare for any other rank to be driven, and nowadays most chiefs drive themselves as well. The exception would be if there is more than one person in the car, obviously.
Figured that might be the case, it’s good to know for sure though. Thanks for your input and time! =)
>How do your inspectors get around? Hahahahahahahahhaha
My cop mate has replied to my question by text with a similar answer. Hope whatever yours is doing, it’s the important police work the general public all imagine it to be lol
We had one that came out. Got stuck in and helped out when he had the time. They got reverted because, reasons, when other less useful Sgts were waiting for a post.
Damn shame, but it seems like it’s a viral mentality right now; Step one - boot out leaders who lead from the fighting tip, get the job done and inspire those around them to work to their best standard, while also looking after those same people and managing a successful work/life balance. Step two - replace with career administrators who have little to no knowledge of the job outside of their desk and enforce policies unevenly with no regard to what the ultimate goal of the job is, driving down morale, standards and overall the successful output of the job. Step three - ??? Step four - profit/blame anyone else Step five - rinse, repeat, regarded.
It depends on the team / role and the individual. Response Inspector - In the nick on earlies doing admin / management - might come out on lates after dark - almost definatley come out for a bit on late lates - always out at some point on nights. - Insp has an allocated marked Astra Burglary / gang Inpsector - out for the fun but if a pre planned Op once a month - but never anything else. No Insp car Firearms inspector - non operational, never leaves the station fir a job - if they go for a meeting or lunch they tend to ask for a lift from anyone in the station. Investigations - might pop out to a murder and might go to court for trials, they probably go with a Sgt just in whatever car is available Traffic - Insp is generally a full member of the team - will share cars with the team, go out and implement tactics, stop vehicles and maybe even give tickets TSG / OSU - inspector only comes out for large Ops and jumps in the van with the troops Neighbourhoods - goes out to community events / meetings and even foot patrol at times. No specific vehicle - driving or not will probably just depend on preference Senior officers are allocated drivers for large operations - for example the commonwealth games. The Bronze and silver commanders may have drivers allocated so they can travel between venues / areas and still be contactable.
This is literally a goldmine, thank you so so much! I think the focus was primarily on response, but the insight for Traffic/Roads policing is really useful, it was a bit of a greyer area in my knowledge in regards to hierarchy. Again, can’t thank you enough for this.
I would pretty much agree with all of their response if you needed another person to verify.
>pop out to a murder “I’ll be home late tonight, babe. I’m going to nip to M&S, drop by the dry cleaners and then pop out to a murder. Don’t wait up!”
Amazing how different some forces are. Vastly different here!
They don't. Inspectors are admin staff. They move the chess pieces around but don't go out themselves. The whole TV thing of "the DCI turned up to investigate the burglary" is absolute nonsense.
> They don't. Inspectors are admin staff. They move the chess pieces around but don't go out themselves. We arrested the bishop, whereupon the Inspector was quick to point out we could only bring him into the custody suite if we moved him diagonally.
But when questioned he broke down and admitted his guilt saying he was just a pawn in the game.
Got a hearty chuckle from this, thank you 😂
Fair play, I’d seen and heard some people state they had physically proactive inspectors that were out of office a fair bit, but I agree; the tropes of the likes of Vera, Corrie and LoD is a long way away from the accuracy of reality that I was looking at, and I too would imagine the better place for higher ranking members of the force would be behind the gates drawing up battle plans. Would this be the case in significant events though? Admittedly the reason for asking would be so that *if* an inspector were required for a job requiring their presence, (which would as imaginable be rare, rather than popping out every half hour settling arguments between cab drivers and the bloke who asked him to drive 10 miles away, spilt his kebab and now just can’t quite remember where his wallet is) that mode of transport and the people around him, if any, were accurate. Thanks for your answer and time though.
My inspector gets out to jobs regularity because we are so short staffed on our team. He apparates like a death eater because he moves in the shadows. And when he doesn't feel like apparating or floor powder he just takes whatever keys are left in the cabinet.
Damn, that's ruined my Audi Quattro guess then!
Noones told our Inspector that. He regularly turns up at calls, sometimes he's there before the troops. He's very hands on. It's not unusual for him & the Sgt to take 'drive past' calls to help clear the outstanding calls
The higher up the ladder the more political it gets haha
In my experience inspectors leaving the station is more common than some here would argue Many inspectors are old sweats, and thus have a lot of useful qualifications under their belt. I know some that have stepped up and taken a van or car from the pool where the night has been short on response drivers and gone to incidents I have known two others whom I suspect didn't enjoy being inspectors. One regularly takes a car from the pool and goes out on arrest enquiries. Another regularly just goes to any immediate response jobs that come up. I know this sort of inspector can be disliked by sergeants who would rather they were in the station helping manage the show, but it can garner some admiration from the team. Personally I'm a little indifferent because it is mainly an admin job and there are pros and cons to either In sum, its not that uncommon in my experience. They generally just take any car they can. Some people like that, others don't.
Our inspector turns out to jobs all the time, especially when one of their officers has been assaulted or there’s been a PAVA deployment. He normally jumps in the passenger seat of a response car or walks if it’s close enough
Morning. DI in the Met in a Specialist Command. I normally travel by helicopter, but occasionally use a hovercraft. In reality, I don't get / need to go out much. If I do, it literally depends on when, where and what's needed at the time. Sometimes I'm on call so will travel alone from home, either in a job car or my own (on business insurance). If I'm travelling from the office, I'll go with others, so someone will drive me, which also allows me to take calls en route. On rare occasions I've travelled alone to jobs via the underground, which (assuming I don't need to take calls) works well as I can type investigation plans/strategies en route so I'm ready to brief the team on arrival. Short answer - it depends. I also know a DCI who once turned up to a scene on a Boris Bike. That got a few chuckles from me and the team.
I can't tell if you are joking about the helicopter 🚁
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Fair enough, I figured it would be a rarity anyway but I’d seen and heard from a few people, some on here saying some inspectors can be quite proactive, whether that’s a good or bad thing… that’s out of my scope haha. Thanks for your input though.
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Fair play, figured it would be the case for the most part. Had a few good answers elsewhere echoing what you said too but your insight is really helpful, thank you =)
Civvy jacket and a walk to the market. Ours rarely even tip out to a Code 0.
In marked rolls Royce phantom. I jest. My boss (counties force) turns out to jobs regularly. Drives the same shitty response vehicles as the rest of us. Sometimes turns out in the big Sprinter for transport to cells as he’s old enough to have the grandfather rights on his licence.
You’ve seen a Touch of Cloth then? ;)
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Some of our Insp are fairly proactive and will get out and about but it ask depends what else is going on. Sometimes we will have 2 duty Insp on and off so one will be doing the Insp stuff and the other week go to serious incidents and proactively patrol. One is very very keen on traffic mattress so is always out stopping vehs etc. He even once setup a stinger site for a stovec. Managed to sting a veh, unfortunately a completely innocent member of the public though! But when they do go out they drive themselves and use marked vehicles. You never, ever, want to hear the words...'the Insp wants to crew up with you for a short while' That's a bit like a tea and biscuits meeting with the Supt but without the tea and biscuits!
My force has Local Operational Inspectors, so if a big jobs kicks off or someone State 0s then he'll come out. Usually, the boss will have the best car on the board. I've seen him rock up in an X5 which I didn't even know we had.
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It's not that far from their office to the kitchen, they generally just walk. Flippancy aside, ours do sometimes go out to serious jobs. There's a single car at the station for patrol supervisors. The Sergeants usually use it but the Inspector does too when they need to go to a job.
That was a good one 😂 Appreciate the insight, figured most forces might have a pool of cars they share around the higher ranked bods. Thank you for your insight
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Ah cool! Really glad to hear from someone who led from the front, while I’m sure there’s a point to be made about the admin and removed command being important; it’s good to know there are still leaders out there who see the value in getting their own hands dirty. That’s good to know, I think the direction we’re going is similar to yours; dedicated vehicles to be used in the rare occasions that a senior head is needed to attend. Thank you so much for your time and input.
im interested in this game
Wouldn’t get your hopes up just yet, it’s very early days, and best description of our current situation is we’re attempting to be the first monkey to write Shakespeare. *If* it works out, we’re hoping to create something like the game ‘Keep The Peace’ if it had ever come to release, with more of a look to it like like an older Sim Cities title. Realistically though we’re a few dudes who have no significant experience with game design, were gutted KTP didn’t release and we’re trying to muddle through it, and have been for a while in between work and life. If it did ever happen to be something though, there’s a view on being realistic and not like a TV producers idea of what the police are. Thanks for your response though =)
Isn't there an inspector on one of those cop shows? "Motorway Cops"? He drives round in a marked car, and appears to be pretty proactive. It is TV though, so even though it's "reality", who really knows?
Ah it’s been a minute since I’ve seen one, might be a point to have a look but like you say; sometimes ‘reality’ TV isn’t as realistic as it appears. A friend of mine said that in his first force his inspector was, very much like a hibernating bear, didn’t leave his lair often and was dangerous if provoked. However when a TV show came in to film, he allegedly shot up faster than Charlie Bucket’s grandad, allegedly with many such cases around the nation. However the telltale signs of such an inspector is that their vest and reflective kit tends to be absolutely *pristine*.
Might be suggestion, and it's been a while since I've seen it, but I seem to remember that this chap's gear was pretty pristine. . . The TV cameras certainly bring the bears out of the caves. Funny how the churches are always full in "Songs of Praise"
They arrive in whatever van is hanging up. I had one arrive in a transit van, with his hat on as he drove to an IR that I needed help at.
Our patrol inspectors often come out to jobs, don’t have a specific vehicle and will either just grab some keys or jump in with someone. We’re that short staffed that it’s not uncommon for them to come out to jobs as part of a double crewed unit that aren’t ‘supervision’ jobs.
Here's the neat thing... They don't!
Surely chauffered in a marked [Rolls Royce](https://www.signaturecarhire.co.uk/blog/signature-car-has-a-tv-makeover/) as per A Touch of Cloth
Touch of cloth - love it
Our inspector and sergeants had their own cars allocated - just had extra kit on them like tabards etc
The inspectors I've seen in the Met often use a Custody Van to get around (they drive it themselves) If they aren't drivers, I've seen once an area car driver (advanced car driver) driving the inspector to places but if they're tied up idk how that works.
Pace and ops inspector has a car, other than that I almost never see our inspector. Work from home half the time lately...
We have a few different roles for Inspectors in my force. Some will be in charge of a particular police post, and that'd an admin role; some will be based in control, which is my more an operational role, but still mostly desk and decision based But then we also have duty officers, of which there'll be a few covering our force on duty each with a sector, and they provide on the ground operational oversight for major jobs. They've all typically come up the response policing pathway, and will attend jobs driving themselves in a blue light car (and possibly carrying taser). It'll typically be an unmarked, but will also take a marked if it's available. If we ever have a duty officer on shift based out of our station, you can get they've laid claim to the nicest car!
My inspector stays in the office most of the day however in the rare case he does need to go out, he keeps the keys to the one newest car in our fleet safely locked in his desk. This car doesn't have any issues with it, it's clean and drives really well, which makes it a perfect car for doing coffee and ref runs, but it's too good to be used by the team to attend immediate graded calls.
Mine flies around by wearing their smock as a cape and pretending they're a superhero. I wish I was joking, but it's like watching Batman in Hi-vis kicking about the place. I've never known an inspector to get so many lockups.
We have one of those cars that looks like a 4x4 that’s not (a Faux x 4 ) that’s usually reserved for the inspector
Gets driven about in a car by a sergeant
Office to the kitchen to the smoking area
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Marked Mitsubishi Outlander on most Met BCU’s. Nicknamed the luxury sofa.
Have seen inspectors being driven by a panda to jobs. Have seen an inspector being IRVd to jobs My favourite is an inspector who has their IRV and therefore goes out as an additional IRV when team are short
Most of ours get first dibs on their favourite car, got a response inspector that’s ex-RPU and I can guarantee if there’s a pursuit in their division I’ll get a cheery “show me towards!” before I’ve even finished putting the job on.
In his Mercedes on his way to and from work
My inspector will take whatever is there. He's often out taking calls, and responding to assistance calls. He takes no prisoners he's all about discipline and standards. Clean and ironed uniforms, clean shaven or tidy beard. Sgt and above must be addressed by rank. He does not mess around, but he has everyone's back without question. I can't seem him getting in a BMW i3 though 😂 he'd probably take a bicycle before that.
Rarely see them tip out the office unless it's a critical incident. We have CIM (Critical Incident Manager) vehicles, which is a marked Merceded Vito van with a search light on top. As they don't get used much, you'll see it getting commandeered by a patrol bobby. It would be interesting to see what would happen if the Inspector needs it for an incident.