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As in the sign on the back of cash wagons.

Does anybody actually know what it's supposed to mean?
 
Just intended to put folk off robbing it I suppose.
 
Im guessing its a warning to any would-be armed robbers. Police are following this van, so dont risk it Mr Criminal...
 
So, do we assume that what it should say is "Police are following this van"?
 
Serendipitous Sid said:
So, do we assume that what it should say is "Police are following this van"?
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No. I think that the words are carefully chosen to indicate the Police may, on occasions, follow the van (which they might very well do), as apposed to actually following it all the time.
 
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Serendipitous Sid said:
So, do we assume that what it should say is "Police are following this van"?
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Not necessarily. The Police maty not be following the van at that particular moment. 'Police Folliow this van', to me means that the Police DO follow/have been known to follow/occasionally follow this van.

If you are short of cash Sid, im sure the good members of TP could have a whip-round. Why take the risk ;)
 
Anyway, apart form robbers, who gives a f***!!
 
It could also be that police also follow (monitor) it electronically and unexpected stops or diversions will be picked up, they likely also have in them directly linked panic alarms
 
Cheers chaps. I now have this mental picture of a car full of villains cruising round endlessly in the hope that they'll spot a cash van without the sign on it ...
 
BRASH said:
Snooze, yeh lose!!
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Obviously got too much time on your hands. Im on here whilst on a conference call at work :eek:, so cant always answer quickly.

Yes, the call is very boring.
 
I must admit I always read it as they were constantly tracked


Sent from The Moon.....
 
Cg_Girl said:
I must admit I always read it as they were constantly tracked


Sent from The Moon.....
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Yeh, but you're a girl and by definition a bit dolly dimple.
 
I always interpreted it as an instruction: "Police, follow this van". :rolleyes:
 
It's because the company that owns the vehicle has signed up to the "follow that vehicle" campaign.

Two purposes to the sign :

> To warn would be robbers that police do occasionally follow that particular van
> An instruction to police that the van is participating in the "follow that vehicle campaign" and if their vehicle is not currently committed to another call then they should accompany it

A lot of police forces are participating in the scheme, but first link I found happened to be this one : http://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/news-articles/follow-that-van.html


NB: Disclaimer : I'm neither a police officer nor an armed robber . . . just nosy :p
 
Nikon_Nick said:
Obviously got too much time on your hands. Im on here whilst on a conference call at work :eek:, so cant always answer quickly.

Yes, the call is very boring.
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and i thought it was just me that did that!
 
I don't understand one thing. Why do the police have to follow those vans when you consider that they would be better off patrolling the streets, parks, shopping centres, fields, and so on? Especially because of mugging, attacks, and so on.

Can a police driver decided to think for himself/herself and ignore that 'Police follow this van' sign if the officer spotted something else that may be trouble? Say for example: The officer would rather check out a car and the driver that seems to keep driving around a children's playing field, than to have to follow the van just because the sign says so?

I mean, a police officer can't just actually spotted that sign, then follow that van all day??

Sometimes I wonder if the bosses of those cash van companies cut corners by buying cheap vans which could be broken into, so they would rather have the police follow the van just in case of robbery, than to have a better stronger van and well trained staff.

Why do it have to be the 'Police follow this van' sticker? Why not more effect stickers like: SmartWater technology used, Satellite tracking fitted, Live CCTV in use, Colour dyes in use, or something like that?
 
These never get followed, always thought these signs are pretty silly.

When you're overworked under a
bureaucratic, underfunded and stretched system, you don't get time to randomly follow a van, not even knowing what's in it or where it's going!
 
'police follow this van if you see it being driven around on backroads at 1am', more like...
 
"Police follow this van" I take to mean that police can and do follow this van. They might not be right now but they can.

"Police, follow this van" would mean what a lot of people take the former to mean - a sign instructing a police car to follow the van when they happen to notice one.

I think?
 
Major Eazy said:
I don't understand one thing. Why do the police have to follow those vans when you consider that they would be better off patrolling the streets, parks, shopping centres, fields, and so on? Especially because of mugging, attacks, and so on.
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You get many muggings in fields down your way?

Sarah Lee explained it ^
 
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