So, York area police vehicles were damaged 550 times last year.
If a private company had that record, it would sack its drivers and start again.
There is a lesson here for the police: the laws of the land might not apply to them but the laws of physics apparently do.
When a moving car hits something that isn't moving it will be damaged, and the fact it's got a light-show on its roof won't make a lot of difference.
Too much Sweeney and not enough Dixon Of Dock Green?
Steve Plows (formerly of York),
Peterhead,
Aberdeenshire.
Updated: 10:15 Wednesday, April 19, 2006
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