Marked and Unmarked

kikel

What are the Gardai travelling round in these days. Anyone spot anything unusual? Give locations of the unusual.

Ford Mondeo (marked and unmarked)
New Ford Focus (unmarked)
Old Ford Focus (marked and unmarked)
Opel Vectra (marked and unmarked)
Toyota Yaris (marked)
Renault Clio (marked)
Subaru Forestor (unmarked)

mloc123

Seen a couple of new shape Vectras, traffic cops on the n4 unmarked.

jimmycrackcorm

Saab 9-3 Traffic car.
Subaru Forester (unmarked) for motorway patrols.

Our man in Havana

93 D green Ford Escort doing traffic duties in Kilkenny.

turkey_lurkey

Un marked new shape silver BMW 5 series seen going down hard shoulder on M50 with an unmarked Camry in tow.

Beamer was fitted with blue flashing lights front and rear.

Wishbone Ash

Red Unmarked Ford Mondeo ST 3000 on M1

Tipsy Mac

Bond-007 wrote:

93 D green Ford Escort doing traffic duties in Kilkenny.

I thought after those 2 cops were killed a couple of years ago driving an ancient Corolla that 5 year old cars were the max they were allowed to drive?

Wishbone Ash

Tipsy Mac wrote:

I thought after those 2 cops were killed a couple of years ago driving an ancient Corolla that 5 year old cars were the max they were allowed to drive?

I think that may be for marked cars. There are quite a few very ordinary old unmarked cars in the Dublin area.

Dr Pepper

New(ish) Opel Astra hatch-back on the Navan road (unmarked, black I think!). Hard to know these days. Sooo many Focuses and Mondeos on the roads.

Kermitt

That Forester is maroon, and doesn't live on motorways alone. It's regularly seen in Naas on late night speed duty, and I saw it pulling iin Monasterevin on Saturday. Trouble is even though you know it exists, you don't spot it as quick as it's not the typical cop wagon.

Gardaí in Naas have a red Bora too AFAIK

Tipsy Mac

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I think that may be for marked cars. There are quite a few very ordinary old unmarked cars in the Dublin area.

No it was actually an unmarked Corolla they were killed in, I wonder was the 93 D green Ford Escort a private Gardas car and if it was is his insurance company aware he is using it for with his work.

oleras

i saw 2 guards this morning on the parkway roundabout enforcing lane management,i.e...come up the outside lane from dublin road you were going into the parkway, like it or not, no cutting back into trafic....lol afaik, they had a vw cady, i think, it was a car van anyways, the 2 guys had on the baseball caps, looked very NYPD....lol

mondeoman

fiat punto mk2 -marked
hyundai accent - marked
toyota yaris -marked
toyota avensis - unmarked
new shape astra - marked
all in the wexford area;)

colm_mcm

Toyota camry (old shape 01-ish) 2.2 in platinum silver

Lex Luthor

Saw an unmarked steel grey '04 reg Ford Mondeo on way back from Liffey Valley to Naas at the weekend

colm_mcm

A Garda in a Mondeo, whatever next

babybundy

colm_mcm wrote:

Toyota camry (old shape 01-ish) 2.2 in platinum silver

if thats the one i am thinking of it has some set up with built in speed camera and screens and other bits and peices

BrianD3

Aroudn the N4 and Mullingar area I've seen
Ford Galaxy (marked)
Ford Mondeo estate (marked)
Ford Focus saloon (unmarked, red)
Nissan Terrano (marked)
Toyota Landcruiser (marked) Haven't seen this vehicle for quiet a while though
BMW X5 (unmarked, grey) Probably an ERU vehicle.
Toyota Corolla saloon (marked)
Ford Mondeo ST220 (unmarked, blue)

armchairninja

Ive seen the Maroon Subaru Forester in Newbridge too!,
It looks fairly normal at a glance, I was going into Tesco one night and it drove past, then out of nowhere a load of blue lights appeared from everywhere:eek: , It looked as if there was one hidden in the brake light tray on the back window aswell.
So from that night forward instead of keepin the boot down when u see the headlights of a jeep behind I tend to ease off...Just incase!!

smash

I can't remember the exact model, but I posted it before, along with the reg... a bmw 330ci I think it was. Black, in Donnybrook.

babybundy

steve06 wrote:

I can't remember the exact model, but I posted it before, along with the reg... a bmw 330ci I think it was. Black, in Donnybrook.

bmw not bad i heard they had audi a4's now as well