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A police RANGE ROVER flanked by 5 or 6 bikes has just come down Lordship Lane (literally about 60 seconds ago, past the old Grove pub). One of the bike escorts had a whistle and he was using this to stop the flow of traffic to allow the Range Rover and it's entourage through.


Any ideas who this could've been?!

If the Range Rover was a liveried Met vehicle, then it will have been the Special Escort Group (SEG) on a training run


They whizz ahead and dominate the junctions with furious whistling and hand signals


I think the idea is that the wheels of the principals vehicle do not stop rolling

jctg Wrote:

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> I saw it going past the Nag's Head in Peckham. It

> could have been someone as inconsequential as the

> Duke of Gloucester. Even twats like him get that

> treatment.



Did the Whistler come out of the betting shop and direct him.

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