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My guess is that it is one or more of the attendees at this. They could be staying somewhere local. The UK has treaty obligations to give police protection to visiting heads of state, foreign ministers, and any other visiting statesperson judged to be at risk.

As others have noted (particularly with the car being empty), these seem much more likely to be either practice or a training runs - very possibly to ensure the outriders remain in contact with (and the right distances from) the target car. Running a tight convoy of vehicles, at reasonable speed, through suburban traffic and streets is a non-trivial skill, which can only be learned and practiced in 'real' situations. If this is a rehearsal (as opposed to more general training) the real event may not even be our roads - just roads much like them.
Good security would suggest a close protection team would familiarise themselves with a route fairly inconspiciously - so as not to alert anyone to the route - and practice convoying somewhere else, similar to but not the real route - save where the route (i.e. The Mall) is always going to be very obvious and predicatable.
  • 2 weeks later...

DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote:

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> Just to put you out of your misery On the 23rd

> January 2015, Chris Wormald, the permanent

> secretary for the department of education visited

> Heber Primary School.



he's only a civil servant for heaven's sake! they go home on the bus or tube like ordinary people!

he might have been driven to Heber in a car if he was on an official visit, but he wouldn't have had a police escort. That sort of thing is reserved for royals. Like Prince Andrew. Or prisoners. Although the latter are generally in some sort of van.

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