Just had this forwarded to me by errrr..........

Hants Police are doing for a television programmed series from yesterday
(26th September) for seven weeks.

If you use the M27 or the M3 this potentially affects you so please proceed
with caution and pass onto anyone who you feel might just need to know.
The program a BBC South commission called "Traffic Cops" will be filmed
covering the area from Ringwood concentrating on Ringwood M27 up to M3 J9
and a team working the ring road around Southampton (Totton will have a unit
working it alone), Cosham M27 stretch to J5 of the M27 (Southampton Airport
turn-off).
The fourth concentration is working from Winchester Services covering M3 to
J10 M3 (Winchester South) using five unmarked cars, two Skoda 03
registration Octavias, an 05 plate dark red Mondeo and two Volvo saloon
cars.

The BBC unit are going to be based out of a unit in Millbrook Road in
Southampton and will also be covering the armed police response unit and the
Southampton Airport Police Security / British Transport Police
team.

The BBC team are in Citreon Picasso MPVs leased from Arriva.

To make it even more effective the Traffic police have authority from Chief
Constable to "work to rule" So instead of the laid back approach to the
usual Hants traffic police this will be a lot more concentrated to make it
effective filming.

I'm going to go and find the cars and take photos of them - see how they like it!!!!

 

Saw one of the silver Octavia's on Sunday morning blues flashing at the front as it came up behind me, this was after i got caught around junction 6ish for my misplaced number plate. Tends to add up why they gave me such a hard time, as if she was reading the offences from a script.

 

If my comment to a solo officer about radioing in my details while pulling me over for using a phone a few years ago is anything to go by....they don't like it very much

 

Thanks for the heads up.
I'll be waiting for the blue lights with my plate too!

 

Thanks for the warning.

We will be even better behaved than usual for a while.

 

I'll put the silencer in for a few days too...........

Thanks for the info

 

Actually, I'd have thought the fact that it's Ralston posting, a title of "Watch out" is enough to be honest. An actual post is superfluous

 

Oh shit.

Been up and down the last 3 days, and have been seriously motoring. Guess they would have stopped me if they had seen me

MB

 

Thanks for the info, Rich.

I copied this onto the ST Owners Club site. On the M27 today between Portsmouth and Fareham, a marked Volvo estate was seen with a car they'd pulled over and a cameraman was filming it. The cameraman must have been in the Volvo as there wasn`t any other vehicle apart from the poor soul they'd stopped.

 

Anyone fancy a Hampshire meet ?

That'd raise the S2K exposure - massed hooning down the M3, BBC giving chase