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  2. Police vehicles in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    These can include the unique force code, vehicle identifying mark, or police division that the vehicle belongs to. Under the Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989, police vehicles may display blue flashing lights to alert other road users to their presence or when the driver feels that the journey needs to be undertaken urgently. These lights ...

  3. Battenburg markings - Wikipedia

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    A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...

  4. Police uniforms and equipment in the United Kingdom

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    Their effects are designed to be short-lived and exposure to fresh moving air will normally result in a significant recovery within 15–20 minutes. The CS spray issued by UK police services contains a 5% solution of CS whilst Captor sprays contain a 0.3% solution of PAVA. PAVA is significantly more potent than CS. [30]

  5. Jam sandwich (police car) - Wikipedia

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    Two Metropolitan Police Hyundai i30s in "jam sandwich" livery (left) and Battenburg markings (right). The "jam sandwich" livery on police vehicles across the United Kingdom has today been replaced by Battenburg markings, first introduced in 1998 on the recommendation that the livery makes the vehicle easily identifiable by oncoming drivers as a police vehicle from at least 500 metres (1,600 ft).

  6. Offensive rape joke t-shirt pulled from retail store, incites ...

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    SM Super Malls responded Tuesday saying that they too find the shirt to be grossly inappropriate. They posted, "We do not tolerate such action. They posted, "We do not tolerate such action.

  7. Sillitoe tartan - Wikipedia

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    Subsequent to the launching of Battenburg markings on police vehicles in the 1990s, the police introduced retro-reflective versions of the Sillitoe tartan markings to their uniforms, usually in blue and white, rather than the blue and yellow used on vehicles. Many police forces have a sky blue and white Sillitoe tartan hatband as part of their ...

  8. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    A reference to police officers with their police cars, which in Luxembourg have three stripes on the bonnet and on each side, representing the national colours (red, white, light blue). Due to the fact that the police cars are white as well as the colour of the central stripe, it seems like they only have two stripes on it, like rally cars.

  9. How police officers preyed on teens in the Boy Scouts’ police ...

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    Explorer programs, created by the Boy Scouts of America, are supposed to foster interest in policing. They have faced misconduct allegations involving nearly 200 young people.