Police Driving – How To Do The TPAC….

A while ago now, I spent a whole day with Durham Constabulary traffic police on a training day undertaking the TPAC method of halting cars made famous by many a late night police documentary. The final published story took a different slant, with the emphasis more on the BMW cars as opposed to the drivers and the skill level, but this sequence shows what it’s like to trade wing mirrors with a Police BMW 5 Series on the public roads in excess of 70 mph. The skill level is considerable and a totally different set of skills to that used in normal fast road, track or race driving. People are sometimes critical of Police drivers, especially racing drivers, but they have a unique skill set designed for their job, something until that day, I’d not fully understood. Sitting on my hard drive is a 1500 word feature about the unique requirements of Police pursuit driving, the original publisher preferring to run a more ‘conventional’ feature about what a great Police car a 5 Series BMW is.

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